decoration decoration
Stories

GROKLAW
When you want to know more...
decoration
For layout only
Home
Archives
Site Map
Search
About Groklaw
Awards
Legal Research
Timelines
ApplevSamsung
ApplevSamsung p.2
ArchiveExplorer
Autozone
Bilski
Cases
Cast: Lawyers
Comes v. MS
Contracts/Documents
Courts
DRM
Gordon v MS
GPL
Grokdoc
HTML How To
IPI v RH
IV v. Google
Legal Docs
Lodsys
MS Litigations
MSvB&N
News Picks
Novell v. MS
Novell-MS Deal
ODF/OOXML
OOXML Appeals
OraclevGoogle
Patents
ProjectMonterey
Psystar
Quote Database
Red Hat v SCO
Salus Book
SCEA v Hotz
SCO Appeals
SCO Bankruptcy
SCO Financials
SCO Overview
SCO v IBM
SCO v Novell
SCO:Soup2Nuts
SCOsource
Sean Daly
Software Patents
Switch to Linux
Transcripts
Unix Books

Gear

Groklaw Gear

Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.


You won't find me on Facebook


Donate

Donate Paypal


No Legal Advice

The information on Groklaw is not intended to constitute legal advice. While Mark is a lawyer and he has asked other lawyers and law students to contribute articles, all of these articles are offered to help educate, not to provide specific legal advice. They are not your lawyers.

Here's Groklaw's comments policy.


What's New

STORIES
No new stories

COMMENTS last 48 hrs
No new comments


Sponsors

Hosting:
hosted by ibiblio

On servers donated to ibiblio by AMD.

Webmaster
Certificates and third parties | 162 comments | Create New Account
Comments belong to whoever posts them. Please notify us of inappropriate comments.
Certificates and third parties
Authored by: JamesK on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 04:32 PM EDT
While PGP/GPG may be under your control, it's also too difficult for many users.
While e-mail apps support X.509 "out of the box", you have to install
something like Enigmail to provide support for PGP/GPG. In addition, on Windows
you have to install an additional app, such as Gpg4Win to get it to work. The
process for generating and managing keys is also more complex than with X.509.
It is also possible to get X.509 from many sources. For example, when I was
working at IBM and using Lotus Notes, configuring for X.509 was straight
forward, using IBM's own key server. Even my bank provides them for
communications with the bank for purposes such as arranging for loans etc. on
line.

I think both are good solutions, but one or the other may be better for certain
users. If for business use, you're pretty much limited to X.509.

BTW, I've had the O'Reilly book "PGP Pretty Good Privacy" on my
bookshelf for many years and first started using PGP with Post Road Mailer, on
OS/2, back in the mid 90's.


---
The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Groklaw © Copyright 2003-2013 Pamela Jones.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Comments are owned by the individual posters.

PJ's articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License. ( Details )