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Re: public-key: the wrong model for email?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Fri Sep 17 09:56:21 2004
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:35:09 -0400
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: Ed Gerck <egerck@nma.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <4149E415.9040307@nma.com>
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 12:05:57PM -0700, Ed Gerck wrote:
| >Adam Shostack wrote:
| >
| >I think the consensus from debate back last year on
| >this group when Voltage first surfaced was that it
| >didn't do anything that couldn't be done with PGP,
| >and added more risks to boot.
|
| Voltage actually does. It allows secure communication
| without pre-registering the recipient.
Generate a key for "unknown-recipient@foocorp.com" encrypt mail to
Bob to that key. When Bob shows up, decrypt and send over ssl.
Adam
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