Let's Encrypt offering S/MIME has been discussed repeatedly both here and on other forums and social media. The discussion here [1] [2] [3] [4] and elsewhere [5] has touched many aspects of S/MIME. Those aspects combined, LE's stance in the past seems to have been that it's not worth doing. To me that s…

Reconsider S/MIME

9peppe April 9, 2022, 7:10pm 6

I can imagine they're useful when the email address is actually linked to your identity, but otherwise... I don't know.

It's not ubiquitous but it's pretty common.

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