I have to agree with Michael: I use gpg because from where I sit it's the standard. Now, I may have my head in a hole but this is the first time I've even heard of SMIME, but I've been aware of gpg for a long time, and have been using it for quite a while as well.
I like the web of trust model a lot more than the third party model, as well. I have very little trust for third parties that are organizations. I have full trust in very few third parties that are individuals - and it comes from knowing them personally and not from some status they have acheived. (indeed, the more popular they are the less I'm likely to trust them) I have control over who I trust in my web of trust. I trust them to be rational about who they trust, and so forth. I may be irrational, but I've seen too many faked cop badges in the movies to unequivocally trust third parties. Sorry if this makes no sense because I did no homework into SMIME (too much other homework to do today)... -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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