Why don't Web Based Email services support emails certificate signing?


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My question is why don't Web Based Email services like Gmail, hotmail and yahoo mail support email sighing? I Realize most people don't sign their emails, everyone else doesn't care if the email they are receiving is signed. Already I may have answered my own question, but it would still be nice for Gmail to show the email has been signed rather than showing there is some strange file attachment with the message.

Obviously email clients like Thunderbird and outlook natively support email signing and show a little ribbon on the right hand side showing it's been signed. It just sounds like something geeky gmail would support just because. I thought I heard the mail app in iOS is now supporting this.

I can see it being an issue, if you are using a computer that wouldn't have your certificate, the email message would go unsigned. if the server saved your certificate that wouldn't be good either, because if someone took over your account they would be sending out signed emails.

one Neat firefox addon that gives you that support in Gmail is Penango http://www.penango.com/

Oh Well just something I was thinking about last night when I got a free comodo email cert.

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X.509 or PGP? I assume you mean X.509 because you mention Comodo. I would love it if Google added a full PGP implementation, but that would be somewhat counter to their interests since they scan your emails for advertising purposes.

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X.509 or PGP? I assume you mean X.509 because you mention Comodo. I would love it if Google added a full PGP implementation, but that would be somewhat counter to their interests since they scan your emails for advertising purposes.

True but even simple signing would be nice. So it wouldn't be encrypted just signed.

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