If we're discussing about this topic it is because of people. emails are one people's need: as techis we could create and use any other fancy communication means and do not bother. So if we want to bring a new communication infrastructure for everybody we cannot jump over the existing one, which sadly is the unsecurable email. Thus we need to consider back-compatibility for any upgrade of the email protocol, in order to let anyone use it as they do it now.
my 2 cents Francesco Rana >> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Stephen Farrell >> <stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie> wrote: >>> ... >>> Personally, I'm not at all confident that we can do something >>> that provides end-to-end security, can be deployed at full >>> Internet scale and is compatible with today's email protocols. >>> But if others are more optimistic then I'm all for 'em trying >>> to figure it out and would be delighted to be proven wrong. >> _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
