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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.
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