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"James A. Donald" <jam...@echeque.com> writes:

> On 2012-03-31 1:51 AM, Nico Williams wrote:
>  > We don't encrypt e-mail for other reasons, namely because key
>  > management for e-mail is hard.

> Key management is hard because it involves a third party, which third 
> party is also the major security hole.

> We have been doing key management the wrong way.

Yep.  It should be no harder than maintaining a personal telephone
directory.

Would-be telephone correspondents somehow manage to get each other's
phone numbers into their personal directories.  Similarly, would-be
email correspondents can get each other's public keys.


- -- 


 -- StealthMonger <stealthmon...@nym.mixmin.net>
    Long, random latency is part of the price of Internet anonymity.

   anonget: Is this anonymous browsing, or what?
   
http://groups.google.ws/group/alt.privacy.anon-server/msg/073f34abb668df33?dmode=source&output=gplain

   stealthmail: Hide whether you're doing email, or when, or with whom.
   mailto:stealthsu...@nym.mixmin.net?subject=send%20index.html


Key: mailto:stealthsu...@nym.mixmin.net?subject=send%20stealthmonger-key

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