Should I use S/MIME?

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 19:39:31 -0800, Erpo  said:

> What's the consensus in the GPG community? 

Technically both standards are not that different and can be
implemented in a secure way.  However getting the S/MIME (i.e. X.509)
infrastructure right is something virtually nobody has yet achieved.
OpenPGP is a proved and usable standard and people who really care
about things are using PGP and OpenPGP for more than a decade.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner