S/MIME is an end-to-end email encryption standard that allows email clients to scramble the contents of an email before it's sent over the internet using a personal certificate.

S/MIME has been a universal standard in securing email for very long time, and rightfully so. But most of its usages has been in the business world, not the public realm.

Like S/MIME, the configuration and maintenance of PGP can be a time consuming pain. There's an additional requirement to maintain your private key in a less standardized way.

The S/MIME system for sending secure e-mail was developed by RSA Security in the 1990s and adopted as an Internet standard by the Internet Engineering Task Force in 1998. Today, support for S/MIME ...

Other researchers behind the PGP and S/MIME research include Damian Poddebniak, Christian Dresen, Jens Müller, Fabian Ising, Simon Friedberger, juraj somorovsky, and Jörg Schwenk.

S/MIME isn’t necessarily the best method to use, but it’s a stable, open standard and probably the most common e-mail encryption method I’ve seen in use. [ Die, unknown executable!

If you wanted to use an encryption standard like S/MIME for your email account (before it was discovered to be vulnerable, that is), you would have to procure your own encryption keys and set them ...