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From: | Uwe Brauer |
Subject: | Re: S/MIME with OpenSSL? |
Date: | Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:38:03 +0000 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> "Adam" == Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:
> Uwe writes:
>> This list of people with whom I communicate in S/MIME contains 8
>> individuals, for opengpg there is just 1.
> The list of people I have communicated using PGP contains 3 individuals,
> for S/MIME the number is 0.
I presume these persons have some software knowledge.
Did you try once to convince computer how shall I say illiterate to use
encryption?
Here is short table to show why it is much easier to use S/MIME for
such people.
operations | S/MIME | PGP |
---|---|---|
Inst of software | no; included | yes |
Installation of plugin | no; included | yes |
generation of keypair | no; ask for a certificate | yes |
interchange of public keys | simply send a sign message | yes interchange |
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