On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:21, [email protected] said: > This is a big problem. The PGP Web of Trust has failed, and we’ve all heard
It did not fail; it is just as inconvenient as paying a CA for a questionable service. Any extra inconveniences are not good for mass use of encrypted mails. > the griping about the CA biz. Joe Hildebrand mentioned POSH & WebFinger > and they’re both interesting. I’m also interested in the notion of a key They requires that you are always online and thus the service provides my track even signature verifications. Without an anonymity guaranteeing infrastructure this may only be an intermediate solution. > 5. Display the message appropriately, depending what it is > This is a problem. Lots of the messages I want to send are movies or songs > or pictures, and if there’s no way to communicate the Media Type, it’s less > useful to the recipient. You mean for the encrypted data or for the cleartext? OpenPGP has a feature to convey the media type - not much options right now but it is easy to extend. Or use the standard way and encrypted the MIME container. Shalom-Salam, Werner p.s. BTW, a few years ago we came up with the http://g10code.com/steed.html proposal. Unfortunately it didn't worked out because the mail providers had zero interest in supporting even a prototype. -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Endymail mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/endymail
