Subject: Re: [smime] [pkix] Is it time for a pkix extensions (or similar) wg?

From: "Miller, Timothy J." <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 15:09:11 +0000

Moved to S/MIME.

> A specification allows a starting point for a conversation amongst the
> implementers, and between the implementers and the CAs. Without one,
> well as its been pointed out, adoption of S/MIME has been poor.  

Adoption of S/MIME has been poor for a number of reasons, mainly because (a) PKI concepts are just hard to grok, and (b) it's a solution looking for a problem.

>							In another
> thread on the IETF mailing list, folks are lamenting that there hasn't been
> much progress with email encryption.  Well issues like this lack of
> specification which leads to poor user experience with encrypted emails are
> some of the root causes.

Email encryption is far far FAR more hindered by the key discovery, key management, and group keying problems than by the name matching problem.

-- T