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Re: /. Yahoo delivers encrypted email
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Udhay Shankar N)
Wed Dec 6 12:01:38 2000
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 22:23:14 +0530
To: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de, Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
From: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com>
Cc: solaar@hushmail.com, cryptography@c2.net
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At 10:38 PM 12/5/00 +0100, Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
> > To be fair, Yahoo handles so much mail that the CPU power necessary to
> > start SSL sessions for all of them gets pretty expensive. They'll probably
> > start doing end-to-end encryption when the prices of that drop lower,
> > Moore's law and all that.
>
>Of course, this assumes that secure mail will be a major hit amongst
>Yahoo users. Somehow, I doubt it.
The battle is, and will always be, for the default setting. If secure mail
becomes the default setting, then things will get interesting fast. Hotmail
already has SSL login as default, for example.
Udhay
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