hi, Thank you for the reply.
> they didn't really explain why; I think it was > leftover > regulations from wartime censorship during World War > II > or the Korean Police Action. I think so. > > Also, in the US, the police can request a "mail > cover" > (which means recording who all your snail mail is > from) > with much less legal formality than a search > warrant, > and if they get a warrant to open all your incoming > mail, > I don't think they're required to notify you. We don't have such a system in india-it is pretty transparent. > >But at the slightest at the use of encryption will > >raise their brows. > >This issue can only be fully solved when the vast > >majority of people begin using encryption. > > > >Encrypted spam wouldn't be a bad idea either. > > (Ideally they'd encrypt all of the spam :-) > > Actually, if you insisted on all your mail being > encrypted, > that would cut down significantly on spam, > because the amount of individual work per message > required to encrypt something is significantly > higher > than the work required to just email it, > which can scale badly and can also increase the > traceability of spam (by watching who downloads > large numbers of keys from keyservers, for > instance.) What about just making your own key pair and not putting it on any key server.The govt will have enough reason that the keys were communicated by other means than putting it on a key server and they will still have be interested in it,making key pairs is not a hard task,if spammers have utilities like pgp,even spammers can do that.So spammers don't have to worry *more* of getting traced.It should give the govt. enough work. :) it is better that every one start encrypting their mail-the idea would be then half of the world policing will have to watch the other half of the world which are civilians-which is not very feasible,thats what I think. > The extent to which obtaining keys is a traceable > activity > depends a lot on the type of public key > infrastructure > that's being used, and to some extent on the amount > of > accuracy that you need - spammers selling lists to > each other > probably wouldn't mind a 5-10% inaccuracy rate if it > meant they didn't have to use keyservers, > while people who want to preserve their privacy are > much more likely to download mass quantities of keys > from servers > to avoid having it be obvious which ones they care > about. > Happy New Year. Regards Sarath. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
