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Re: Why the poor uptake of encrypted email?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Thu Dec 18 16:03:32 2008
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:00:35 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
CC: StealthMonger <StealthMonger@nym.mixmin.net>,
Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
Alec Muffett <Alec.Muffett@sun.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081216180800.GY2463@Sun.COM>
Nicolas Williams wrote:
> Providing a suitable e-mail security solution for the
> masses strikes me as more important than providing
> anonymity to the few people who want or need it. Not
> that you can't have both, unless you want everyone to
> use PGP or S/MIME as a way to hide anonymized traffic
> from non-anonymized traffic.
If email goes away - as I hope and expect it will - we
will need a new store and forward solution to support
anonymity.
A store and forward system is a system without end to
end real time round trips. Obviously end to end real
time round trips prevent anonymity.
A system built on top of a best effort unreliable
messaging system requires some round tripping, which
does not make anonymity impossible, but does make it
tricky. Email's architecture is very nice for
supporting anonymity.
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