Well, what i've been trying to figure out is how you could have a secure
email transmission without having a secure connection. Or even being able
to guarantee that all the mail servers in between will support encryption.
So maybe you could have a setup where the mailservers themselves encrypt
individual messages with the key of the mailserver they're sending it to.
Then you could at least be assured that any mail say from someone at
gaffle.com to someone at musubi.org would be encrypted from the point it
leaves maria.gaffle.com till it reaches abunai.musubi.org.
This scheme would not be something you would want to use for important
messages, for that the end user should do the encryption themselves using
GPG or something. But since 90% of the emails i send are to people either
local to this box, or at musubi.org, and all of those would be encrypted
leaving maria over the wire, it would make the actually important (and
encrypted by me) messages hard to pick out.
I don't know if this is a good idea or not, but it seems like it is a step
that could be done to increase the overall level of email privacy
transparently, and not even be that hard to implement.
I know there's people on this list that have put way more thought into
this than me... what do you think?
-Lkb
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Erik Curiel wrote:
>
> My private key is password protected. In order for it to be used to
> decode my encrypted crap, someone would first have to crack the password.
> This, I grant you, is not so difficult as decoding encrytped messages
> themselves, but it's still no piece of cake.
>
> E
>
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> On 26 Sep 2001, John Hunter wrote:
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> > >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Curiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Erik> All your data will still be sitting in plaintext on your
> > Erik> computer when all's said and done, waiting for any FBI/ATF
> > Erik> sucker to swoop in and snag it.
> >
> > Yeah but so what, so is your private key, right? Or are you hard core
> > enough to keep it separate?
> >
> > JDH
> >
> >
> >
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