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Why Johnny Should Not Delegate Email Encryption to Gateways

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It is concluded that delegating cryptographic operations to a gateway undermines the end-to-end security model that PGP and S/MIME were designed to provide and introduces exploitable features in how the security status of emails is communicated.

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