Re: S/MIME publishing mailing list

On Jan 23, 2015, at 5:35 PM, Peter Gutmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Russ Housley <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> We need to make it easier to get certificates, and then we need to make it
>> easier for others to find those certificates.  I'm willing to work on both of
>> these.
> 
> What about Ian Grigg's GETSMIME proposal from many years ago?  It doesn't
> really get any simpler than that, and it's something that anyone (up to and
> including my cat, if she figures out email) can use:
> 
> https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000966.html

An understood Subject: is fine, so is a new header that is triggered by a UI element.

The problem is getting the MUAs to care enough about S/MIME to add code that would automatically respond to that message. MUA interest is zero, if not negative.

--Paul Hoffman
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