Agility Loop

I do love it when wading through the Twitter chaff actually does yield something productive.  Thankfully, my saved search in TweetDeck led me to the Security Musings blog run by Gemini Security Solutions. Besides feeling a bit of kinship to a blog that seems to really get PKI and security, they had an interesting post a couple of days ago about S/MIME support in Gmail.   It is a Firefox plug-in called Gmail S/MIME.  From reading the blog entry and the plug-in home page, it sounds like it essentually wraps your message in an attachment (which is basically what an S/MIME message is anyhow) and uploads to Gmail. I gave it a test run by sending a message from Gmail to Outlook 2007 (only after an hour and a half of trying to fix Outlook...thx Gist plugin).  I get an underlying security message error in Outlook...odd.  That is usually related to trust or odd formatting of a message.  If I had some more time, I'd dig into the attachment.  Still a cool idea, and it has lots of promise.  One of the challenges of webmail (and mail on mobile devices) is signing and encrypting email. But it is 4/16 after all...time to watch the boys finish OGBC!