PGP & GPG compatibility

[Peter Gutmann]

John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> writes:

>Note, however, that there are many things that OpenPGP doesn't do, making
>encrypted email still a pretty sophisticated thing to do. Brad Templeton has
>been kicking around some ideas on how to make zero-UI encryption work (with
>some small UI available for us experts who care more about our privacy than
>the average joe).
>
>  http://www.templetons.com/brad/crypt.html

There are already a number of S/MIME gateways which do exactly this.  The most
typical mode of operation is org-to-org, where all mail from an organisation is
routed through their corporate gateway anyway so it's a natural place to
perform this operation.  It works reasonably well, and is completely
transparent to the end user (although org-to-org is rather easier to get going
than end-user-to-end-user).  The S/MIME WG has been working on a whole string
of add-ons to basic S/MIME for handling this type of messaging, encrypted
mailing lists, and assorted other useful stuff.

Peter.



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