I think we can agree that the first step is to deploy home servers, and that the first application there would to host communication applications. Just doing that without much other change would already provide protection against the "silent spying" that goes on in big cloud servers.
Initial deployment of anything must provide an immediate reward to the early adopters. You cannot rely on a network effect, and that means you can certainly not request third parties to adopt a new protocol. So better pinch our noses and say that, of course, we will accept SMTP mail. Probably SIP as well, and XMPP. We just need at first to make sure that the home server is easy to deploy and maintain. Then the adopters get the immediate reward, "nobody can go through my mail archives without asking me." The various P2P enhancements come next, once there already is a network of home servers. The obvious one is a communication application that beats traffic analysis by embedding its own "shuffling" or "onion routing." I don't think we can run anything like that directly on a phone, it would drain the battery way too quickly. -- Christian Huitema _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
