On 11/30/2008 04:32 PM, Ian G:
OK, so would you agree that this is not very useful for the non-company people, like yours and my mum?
Please note that you are agreeing here with yourself. The lack of contributions to the thread doesn't mean that there is silent agreement to what you say.
If so, if we agree on that, we might also say "well, companies can look after themselves;" and/or "Mozilla has no offering suitable for secure email for ordinary users."
The support of S/MINE in Thunderbird is neither difficult nor is it insecure. It takes about two clicks to import a certificate and another two to configure it for a specific account. Once TB will be able to use the same certificate store as Firefox, it's minus two clicks. Once a certificate is configured for signing, no further interaction is required. Encrypting is a piece of cake. Getting a certificate happens at some CAs already during the registration process (cough, cough).
Considering the amount of public client certs stored in my TB, it seems that many of the somewhat more technical orientated audience are A) able to use it, B) actually using it. And not all of them are geeks either.
I don't know about you, but I'm here at Mozilla to get a solution to everyone.
S/MIME is an easy to use solution to encrypt mail, sufficiently secure, provides reasonable protection and easy to obtain (free client certificates are all over - Verisign, Thawte, StartCom, Comodo and perhaps more).
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