Microsoft demonstrates return of S/MIME e-mail
BetaNews | at | by Mike
In a blog post on Monday, the development team for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 showed screen shots of an enhancement to Outlook Web Access that enables encrypted e-mails to be sent and received through a Web browser. The demo marks the return of S/MIME support, which had been introduced to OWA before, but which had temporarily disappeared with the first release of ES 2007.
As with Exchange Server 2003 and prior editions, the demo clearly shows that users will need to download and run an additional S/MIME control along with their browsers. For now at least, that makes S/MIME support a Windows-only function, even though OWA itself can be used through browsers in Linux and other environments.