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		sleepless on Sept 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All forms of signing email are generally solving t... S/MIME is broken and impossible to fix since https://efail.de/ How are you coming to the conclusion it would be excellent?

emersion on Sept 5, 2020 [–]

efail can be fixed, see the link you posted, section "mitigations". Also note that (1) disabling HTML emails fixes it (2) not all clients are affected.

sleepless on Sept 5, 2020 | [–]

It has been fixed in OpenPGP. Are you aware of any fix for S/MIME so far?

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