On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, John Levine wrote:
I see interest in the email hosting market to implement the openpgpkey
draft. I know of email service provider that already have deployed the
openpgpkey draft, and others are prepared to go online once the draft is
stable or published as an RFC.
That's quite surprising. I've talked to the large providers, all of
whom were extremely unenthusiastic.
For all the obvious reasons.
Did you ask them if their reluctance was based on business rather than
technical implementation reasons?
Obviously most of the large email providers provide "free" email for a
reason, and if that email is all unreadable to them, their ad business
is affected negatively.
Another obvious unsolved problem is webmail and how you trust
cryptographic keys to a browser. Obviously the big players do not want
to stop their ad driven webbased mail service.
These are the same reasons why the "big messenger providers" (which
happen to be the same as the big email providers) also actively block
or do not support the use of OTR encrypted messaging. It has however,
not stood in the way of OTR being deployed widely.
large providers being unenthusiastic about end-to-end encryption is
exactly the reason others want to deploy this document - to keep their
privacy.
Paul
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