Talk:S/MIME
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[edit] S/MIME
Was the standard S/MIME named in reference to the German S-mine, the terrible antipersonnel mine (also known as the Bouncing Betty)?
- Maybe, but I wouldn't have thought it to be very likely, personally. — Matt Crypto 16:17, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
- I don't think there is any connection. It began life simply as Secure MIME. It appears as S-MIME in some early emails. The reason for the separator is to stop it reading smime which sounds like slime. --Gorgonzilla 15:39, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] CryptoDox - S/MIME link
I would think, that this link shouldn't be in the article, because it leads to an article with the same name but much smaller (tiny). Why people should loose their time going there? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dinno (talk • contribs) 00:40, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
- Agreed. The CryptoDox guy has spammed Wikipedia with lots of links to articles on his site, none of which, as far as I recall, have been anything that but poor in comparison to the corresponding Wikipedia article. If it's better, then fine, it's reasonable to include it. Not until then, however. — Matt Crypto 16:14, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Gmail extension
The text should read "... functionality is availible in the ..." rather than "... functionality is built into the ...", as "built into" implies that S/MIME is provided with no modifications; this is not the case for some of these listed mail clients. Any objections?
Jdstroy 05:15, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- No longer applies. :( jdstroy 06:51, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] External Links
Someone has removed the external links that point to free and paid for Certificates but has left this in the body of the article.
"or from a public CA such as one of those listed below" Just think that it should be reworded to take the lack of CA's that are now no longer available. (81.19.57.186 16:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC))
- Good catch. While Wikipedia is not a directory, it is acceptable to give a link to the appropriate dmoz directory category, which I have done. Wrs1864 16:47, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Outlook Express
I do not think all versions of OE have the mentioned bug. The comment should be limited to the appropriate versions (if at all present). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Herbys (talk • contribs).
- Hello, please keep in mind to sign your comments on talk pages. -- intgr 06:07, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
