Nicolas Williams wrote: > Providing a suitable e-mail security solution for the > masses strikes me as more important than providing > anonymity to the few people who want or need it. Not > that you can't have both, unless you want everyone to > use PGP or S/MIME as a way to hide anonymized traffic > from non-anonymized traffic.
If email goes away - as I hope and expect it will - we will need a new store and forward solution to support anonymity. A store and forward system is a system without end to end real time round trips. Obviously end to end real time round trips prevent anonymity. A system built on top of a best effort unreliable messaging system requires some round tripping, which does not make anonymity impossible, but does make it tricky. Email's architecture is very nice for supporting anonymity. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com
