Nelson Bolyard wrote: > 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. > :-D > It seems that most of the world's email users have moved away from > running their own MUA programs to using webmail. Oh no...now you have also fallen into this hype? Guess you were listening to Aza Dotzler for too long ;-)
Webmail is almost as old as the Internet itself...hotmail seems to exist since ever too...what's new? Nothing, just better infrastructures, more users, higher bandwidth and more providers. The information I have shows, that mail servers and clients are used tremendously being it in the enterprise or home. More than that most people have multiple accounts too, some of which are web mail. > It was the recognition > of that fact that, IMO, cause MoFo to lose interest in Thunderbird. Yes? I know you are pessimistic sometimes, but... ;-) ...rather the software isn't what people really want and need. Something which is now hopefully going to change. > 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. > And why does encrypted mail not work with webmail? Maybe there is no business case? It could work technically. > 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. > Me too...speak to the providers... > > Sure, right after I see it in use on Yahoo. :-) See above.... -- Regards Signer: Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd. <http://www.startcom.org> Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Blog: Join the Revolution! <http://blog.startcom.org> Phone: +1.213.341.0390 _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
