Nullify's GnuPG 1.0.7 Release 2

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Mon May 6 21:11:01 2002


On Mon, 06 May 2002 19:24:52 +0200, Simon Josefsson said:

> FWIW, very few of the S/MIME encrypted/signed mail I receive are

Try to send mails between any mainstream S/MIME mailer; even products
certified by national authorities are not able to interoperate.

> broken, compared to maybe 1 out 20 for PGP.  Having three commonly
> used methods of embedding PGP in mail (and several more methods that

S/MIME has a lot more ways to embed the CMS into a mail and every
applications adds its own flavor.  And if you dive into the specs you
will notice even more things with a horrible broken behaviour.

  Werner