Technically you still have a web of trust with S/MIME. You just don’t say “I trust you because X said you’re good and I trust X” but you say “I trust you, because you paid X money and X did probably a good background check on you”. So rather a tree than a web.
I guess it is philosophical to argue if a tree can be considered a net as well.
Very true, but with S/MIME you have the advantage of not needing to maintain that stuff yourself. Both PGP and S/MIME have huge impersonation risks in theory, but in practice S/MIME is just the expensive, corporate PGP that normal people can actually use for their business email.
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Technically you still have a web of trust with S/MIME. You just don’t say “I trust you because X said you’re good and I trust X” but you say “I trust you, because you paid X money and X did probably a good background check on you”. So rather a tree than a web.
I guess it is philosophical to argue if a tree can be considered a net as well.
Very true, but with S/MIME you have the advantage of not needing to maintain that stuff yourself. Both PGP and S/MIME have huge impersonation risks in theory, but in practice S/MIME is just the expensive, corporate PGP that normal people can actually use for their business email.
Basically Let’s encrypt and geotrust certificates :D
Oooh, something like let’s encrypt but for mails would be nice