Nullify's GnuPG 1.0.7 Release 2
Simon Josefsson
jas@extundo.com
Mon May 6 19:24:01 2002
Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:
> On Sun, 5 May 2002 22:07:44 +0200 (MET DST), Johan Wevers said:
>
>> It might be usefull as a security measure. And interoperability problems
>> are not always an issue, however:
>
> I disagree. Having only minor interop problems is a big advantage of
> OpenPGP over S/MIME. Don't let us get intothe S/MIME trouble.
FWIW, very few of the S/MIME encrypted/signed mail I receive are
broken, compared to maybe 1 out 20 for PGP. Having three commonly
used methods of embedding PGP in mail (and several more methods that
are less commonly used) is probably one of the reasons.