Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote, On 2007-12-13 03:32: > Oh well....maybe I'll come of with yet another standard: > StartComVerySecureAndGoodEVCompatibleSSL/SMIME
I think that's a great idea, Eddy. Now you just need to do the one extra thing that GoodmailSystems did: get the webmail providers to incorporate it. It seems that most of the world's email users have moved away from running their own MUA programs to using webmail. It was the recognition of that fact that, IMO, cause MoFo to lose interest in Thunderbird. So, standards for signed and/or encrypted email that work only with MUAs that run on the user's system, and that do not also work with webmail, are dying, whether they are S/MIME or PGP, frankly. I want to see a signed email scheme that becomes adopted by both MUAs (such as Outlook Express and Thunderbird) and by WebMail, *AND* that preserved the egalitarian nature of internet email -- that is, that allows ordinary users to send and receive signed emails. I don't have a problem with there also existing an EV-like second tier of certified identities that is accessible only to bigger enterprises, which gives special recognition to messsages signed by members of that second tier, but I do object to that being the ONLY tier of signed email that is recognized by webmail services. That's my problem with the Goodmail system, as I presently understand it. I'm not married to S/MIME. If GoodMail's new format/protocol is as well designed as S/MIME, and is openly specified, and is available to be used by all who can get legitimate certificates from legit CAs (including yours!), then I could get behind it (in addition to, or perhaps even instead of, S/MIME). I'd prefer that S/MIME be that one standard that is used by webmail and local MUAs, but if not, I can live with another protocol that offers the same capabilities and has greater market penetration. > Please add my super secure standard to NSS and add a specially colored > UI indicator to ThunderBird and Firefox (prefered color is green). Much > appreciated. Sure, right after I see it in use on Yahoo. :-) /Nelson _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
