Re: S/MIME publishing mailing list

Russ Housley <[email protected]> Sun, 25 Jan 2015 03:23:45 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.smime
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael:

> The really sad fact is that e.g. Mozilla's S/MIME support was much better in
> Netscape Communicator in 1998. Back then you could simply retrieve the e-mail
> cert via LDAP. Anyone remember signed attribute 'userSMIMECertificate' which
> the user could create and send himself?

When the S/MIME specifications were developed, LDAP was expected to be the main way that certificates get distributed.  That part just never happened....

Russ

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