<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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</span><br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:38 PM, B-o-B De Mars <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mr.chew.baka@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=mr.chew.baka@gmail.com&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;">mr.chew.baka@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Does anyone have any thoughts on the relative safety of S/Mime vs GPG<br>
for email, especially in the light of recent news about NSA activity and<br>
their "infiltration" of standards groups?<br>
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</div><a href="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" target="_blank">http://www.upi.com/Top_News/<u></u>US/2013/09/06/Documents-show-<u></u>NSA-can-crack-most-Web-<u></u>privacy-encryption/UPI-<u></u>60871378450800/?spt=hs&or=tn</a><br>

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I saw this yesterday.<br>
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