Michael Stroder wrote: >I'm often working while traveling by train. I'm off-line then. I want >the encrypted e-mail ready to be in the [Outgoing] folder - protected >right from the beginning.
This does not appear to be a general requirement. Presumably most people have other documents that would need protection from intruders, including some that never leave the computer. >> I.e. the IT-landscape has changed, while S/MIME has not. >Because there was no real need. ;-) This is why IM kills S/MIME because the latter does not require awkward saving of keys in eternity. >> Streaming of media indicates that the bandwidth considerations once >> considered as crucial are not that valid anymore. >See above. E-Mail is asynchronous (store-and-forward) by nature. The >off-line usage together with S/MIME fits this scheme very well. But almost nothing else on the Internet does. >> Voila! Here there is work to do. >I don't see the need for changing it. Neither do I. Secure e-mail must be destroyed, or to be more correct; replaced by something that actually works for ordinary people. Anders _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
