Re: Position Paper for W3C Workshop on Identity

On 4/24/11 4:00 AM, Mo McRoberts wrote:
> ing e-mail clients not to treat S/MIME signed or encrypted e-mail using certificates from authorities they don't recognise (including, of course, self-signed certs) as “untrusted” rather than “INVALID” wouldn't be a bad thing… I appreciate, of course, that it's a can of worms.
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> (But, given that practically every e-mail client on the planet understands S/MIME, there's a big surface-area there for use of WebID beyond web authentication — why*shouldn't*  I be able to use my WebID certificate to sign e-mail messages, after all?)

We already have S/MIME + WebID, it just works. We have a mail package in 
ODS that allows you to even enhance our filters using WebID. The final 
mile simply boils down to tweaking the 3 main email apps: Thunderbird, 
Apple Mail, and OutLook. Of course I am all ears re. anyone interested 
in extending any of these mail apps.

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