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On Aug 26, 2013, at 4:12 AM, Richard Salz <rich.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think you need all that much to get good secure private email.
> You need a client that can make PEM pretty seamless; reduce it to a
> button that says "encrypt when possible."  You need the client to be
> able to generate a keypair, upload the public half, and pull down
> (seamlessly) recipient public keys.  You need a server to store and
> return those keys. You need an installed base to kickstart the network
> effect.
> 

Repeat after men. "Encryption is not the problem."

What you described is pretty much PGP Universal. Traffic analysis is the 
problem. Individual computers can be tracked thru the internets with mere 
timing signatures on the packets given off by their clocks. Watch this. And 
that was academic research 7 years ago. You think things haven't progressed 
since then?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYwYC4x4gtU

Tamzen




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