On Apr 2, 2015, at 1:12 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 06:52:33PM +0200, Christian R??ner wrote:
> 
>>> libsmaug uses these labels (as well as our soon-to-be available 
>>> provisioning portal).
>> 
>> Just a question for ._encr and ._sign:
>> 
>> Do you really plan to store private keys in public DNS? Is it, what ._sign 
>> will be used for? Isn?t this really a security issue?

<snip>

> To be honest, I don't expect encrypted messages in the mailbox to
> ever be very popular, encrypted storage is just too inconvenient
> for most users.  End-to-end is good for live conversations, but
> not so well suited to archived communication.  We can try to make
> it more usable for those willing to put up with the inconvenience,
> but I would not really expect large-scale adoption.

Actually, we’re seeing a lot of renewed interest in this.  Issues ranging from 
the Sony incident, to APT threats in networks have seemed to be very motivating 
to a number of people in the security space.  I think we all ought to be very 
worried about our data when it's at rest (i.e. controlling where and when our 
data/email/etc is encrypted, by whom, etc.).

> That's a personal best guess of course, I am willing to be proved
> wrong.

We’ve been trying to validate with industry and are seeing the opposite, but 
I’m certain ymmv.

Eric
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