[Linux-aus] Microsoft Office 2003 lock-in via DRM

Chris Samuel chris at csamuel.org
Tue Sep 9 20:52:01 UTC 2003


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On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 12:02 pm, Les Bell wrote:

> That shouldn't be too difficult, and it should be acceptable in the
> corporate world, as most Windows applications have hooks or add-ins for
> PGP. The alternative would be something like S/MIME - the basic difference
> is that PGP/GPG is based upon a web of trust, whereas S/MIME relies upon a
> Certifying Authority. (Personally, I use S/MIME because that's what's built
> into Lotus Notes [don't anyone say it!] but even Notes has a PGP add-in
> available at a small cost).

It may be possible to use the work from the Aegypten project which the German 
government sponsored to create a secure email system which could use both 
OpenPGP and S/MIME as a springboard for this..

Chris
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 Chris Samuel  :  http://csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

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