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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:15:14 -0700
From: Somebody
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Absolute Snakeoil over and out.
I was hoping to find somebody working on real peer to peer, and they
sort of are. Here's the summary:
a) encrypted messaging amongst a pre-registered population who have
bought the software
b) flexible transport options (you can deliver a message by):
i. socket-to-socket;
ii. ssl/http mediated through Absolute Snakeoil servers (for
firewall
subversion)
iii. encrypted store and forward through Absolute Snakeoil
servers
c) corporate purchasers are run their own Snakeoil servers, but
these "VPN"s can be enabled to speak to other corporations'
Snakeoil
servers. No discussion of the PKI implications of this whole
approach.
NETNET: Somebody should embed PGP code into the AOL Instant
Messanger framework (AIM), and you'd be in the same place, with
open-source pre-vetted crypto and an established approach to PKI (none).
Probably somebody has.
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