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Re: how email encryption should work (and how to get it used...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri May 20 14:11:21 2005
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From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: Amir Herzberg <herzbea@macs.biu.ac.il>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:23:45 -0800
In-reply-to: <424A86D3.5090103@cs.biu.ac.il>
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On 30 Mar 2005 at 13:00, Amir Herzberg wrote:
> A missing element is motivation for getting something
> like this deployed... I think spam could offer such
> motivation;
Phishing is costing billions, and is a major obstacle to
electronic commerce. In my judgment, fixing phishing
and facilitating electronic commerce is a good fit to
the capabilities provided by cryptography. (Of course a
large part of spam is phishing and viruses)
> a cryptographic protocol to penalize spammers could be
> one of the most important tools against spam. I've
> presented such a simple crypto protocol (SICS) in
> SCN'04 [available off my site],
And your site is?
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James A. Donald
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