S/Mime uses a centralized certificate authority. PGP/GPG is decentralized. There's no question that PGP/GPG is preferable over S/Mime because of this On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:38 PM, B-o-B De Mars <mr.chew.baka at gmail.com>wrote: > On 9/9/2013 10:48 PM, Kris Browne wrote:: > > Does anyone have any thoughts on the relative safety of S/Mime vs GPG >> for email, especially in the light of recent news about NSA activity and >> their "infiltration" of standards groups? >> > > http://www.upi.com/Top_News/**US/2013/09/06/Documents-show-** > NSA-can-crack-most-Web-**privacy-encryption/UPI-** > 60871378450800/?spt=hs&or=tn<http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/09/06/Documents-show-NSA-can-crack-most-Web-privacy-encryption/UPI-60871378450800/?spt=hs&or=tn> > > I saw this yesterday. > > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -- Michael Greenly http://logic-refinery.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130911/99f52c7b/attachment.html>