-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2005-07-02 at 18:17 -0400, James Knott wrote:
If you want a trusted authority, you can get a free S/MIME digital certificate from http://www.thawte.com/email. Many companies also hand them out to employees or customers.
I know, we spaniards can get a free and official pkcs7 certificate from the goverment mint (FNMT, Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre). It identifies us for transactions with the goverment, like tax forms and payments. And it can be used for email, as a side benefit. But I reserve it for very important emails, not for a list ;-)
You can also save your GPG keys on a key server.
I have done that months ago ;-) But as Theo pointed out, nobody really knows that those gpg keys with which I sign my email really pertain to a person named C.R., or I'm impersonating "him"... Or, said otherwise, anybody can put keys on a key server claiming to be anybody. There is no way to certify identities with pgp/gpg - except the web of trust.
I have Mozilla configured to support both GPG and S/MIME.
So have I. But not all MUAs can. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFCxzM9tTMYHG2NR9URAve+AJ9Rr32OoqPkDVa/saa+vvQyRtyg7gCdF6T1 vWAREKHs8QJfjfP0uZc1Yfc= =vm8Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----