Re: Public Key Look Up

"John Levine" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.smtp
Organization Taughannock Networks
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It appears that Matthias Leisi  <[email protected]> said:
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>> Am 14.05.2021 um 22:28 schrieb John R Levine <[email protected]>:
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>> Right, hence my note about LE for S/MIME.
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>LE is quite clear they won‘t issue certs for S/MIME: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/s-mime-certificates/153/2

That thread ended three years ago.  Last month, the IETF published RFC 8823 which extends the ACME protocol
to issue S/MIME certificates.  I doubt that Alexey wrote it purely as an hypothetical exercise.

>How can ietf-smtp help in paving the way for such an adoption?

Honestly, by not wasting time with diversions that are unlikely to do anything useful.

Pretty much every MUA other than webmail already has S/MIME support.  If a few of them let their users get
certs with one click, it might make a difference.

R's,
John

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