[Cryptography] Dark Mail Alliance specs?

[James A. Donald]

On 2013-11-23 02:30, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> As far as message formats go, S/MIME has completely won the battle.
> Virtually every mail client that supports secure mail supports S/MIME
> and virtually everyone who uses an MUA rather than WebMail uses one that
> has S/MIME built in.

But does anyone actually use S/MIME?

> On the trust side I think that people have been thinking about the
> problem in a very unhelpful way. PGP's Web of trust is better for some
> groups of people and S/MIME's CA managed trust is better for other
> groups of people.�

But the number of people actually using either system is very small. 
Looks to me that both systems have failed.