Re: E-mail Encryption - S/MIME vs TLS

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2007-06-06 Danux wrote:
> Hi experts, we are in the way of implement E-mail Encryption, by now
> we have two proposals:
>
> S/MIME and TLS, we think the last one is better.
>
> I would like to know if you have a better solution?

Neither is better or worse than the other, because they do different
things. S/MIME enrypts the content of your e-mail, whereas TLS does
encryption on the transport level (i.e. encrypts the transport of an
e-mail between two hosts). Usually you want both.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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