Konstantin Andreev wrote: > No. No such mail client exists that allow tune/edit recipient's S/MIME > caps. > > This is because some influential people consider: > > * S/MIME caps are just a part of "mail security protocol" > * protocol shouldn't be exposed to end user to prevent security > compromise. > * we shouldn't confuse user. "Securing mail" should just work w/o > exposing these gory details.
Which is IMO complete non-sense. As with HTTPS the user should be able to see which cipher was used for encrypting/signing an S/MIME message and the user should be able to exclude weak ciphers from being used at all. > You can find relevant discussions in other newsgroups, not this one. Which one? Ciao, Michael. -- Michael Ströder E-Mail: mich...@stroeder.com http://www.stroeder.com -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
