From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
To: “Deranged Mutant” <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-06-03 23:28:49 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 07:28:49 +0800
From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 07:28:49 +0800
To: "Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>
Subject: Re: Why PGP isn't so ubiquitous (was NRC Session Hiss)
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At 21:33 6/2/96, Deranged Mutant wrote:
>The reasons PGP hasn't become widely used are because of it's lack of
>user-friendliness and poor integration into other tools, irregardless
>of S/MIME.
I concur. It is that lack of integration that gave S/MIME the space to grow
in. Now it is too late to achieve the market dominance that PGP should have
achieved long ago. S/MIME *will* be the email encryption standard used by
Joe Sixpack.
Disclaimer: My opinions are my own, not those of my employer.
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com>
PGP encrypted mail preferred.
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