Hi, any plans to create support for s/Mime / Mail clients and/or application signing?

We don’t have any plans to tackle email encryption at this time (though you can use Let’s Encrypt certs for TLS between mail servers). We don’t yet know of any email encryption solution that can scale very far beyond a technical elite niche. It’s an important but very hard problem to solve. We don’…

josh We don't yet know of any email encryption solution that can scale very far beyond a technical elite niche. Josh, what advanced technical skill or elite status is required to use Comodo's free S/MIME solution then? InstantSSL Official Site | Free Trial SSL Certificate Our free …

@Josh and serverco: Thanks for the great job you guys/gals are doing. Your work is making the internet a better place for everyone. I can imagine that things are busy right now. If in the future, when you may be exploring new waters, may I second the request for S/MIME? One solution could look l…

why not look at PGP encryption? There are plenty of providers who will allow you to distribute public keys so other can encrypt emails to you S/MIME S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is a standard for public key encryption and signing of MIME data. S/MIME is on an IE…

[image] josh: It's an important but very hard problem to solve. Dear Josh, as far as I know, S/MIME requires an X.509 certificate like the ones you are already issuing. The difference to a certificate used for an Apache e.g. is a populated eMail field. The CN field can even be empty for S/MI…

@Jarod42 , I believe it’s not that simple. Issuing valid S/MIME certificates requires additional trust bits set on root CA certificate and enabling them is on discretion of root CA store operators, such as Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple. This would require Let’s Encrypt to use cross-signed CA to speed…

The IETF has started working on a S/MIME extension for ACME ! :smiley:

A lets-encrypt baked acme for smime solution would be really game-changer in my eyes. Imagine those setups running groupwares with central smime store and a lot of e-mail addresses handled. As far as i see, this is the typicall use-case of email in a company context or privatly used by tech-geeks. …

Requested s/Mime support

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serverco January 6, 2016, 8:14am 2

There was another topic requesting encryption of email As far as I’m aware I’ve seen no official plans.

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Requested s/Mime support

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