TLS has enabled e-commerce which is generally held responsible for adding an extra trillion dollars a year to global GDP.
Email security is not going to be so dramatic but it allows a lot of the holes in the e-commerce interface to be filled in. And that could be worth a few percent extra growth of e-commerce. Lets say it is 1 percent, or rather, lets say that we can make people think it is 1 percent. That is ten billion dollars a year. 1% of that is a hundred million and we can buy a lot of servers and other infrastructure with that. If we get the security in the specs we can easily make transactions machine readable. Sent from my iPad > On Sep 8, 2014, at 5:13 PM, Brandon Long <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Eliot Lear <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Let's talk constraints for a moment. Does the problem get easier if we >> > say, “let's not even attempt to address transactional email”, and focus >> > exclusively on h2h? Also, is it a goal to completely do away with >> > spam? Is that a non-goal? >> >> Transactional mail is the easiest to do and has the biggest payoff. So >> no, not doing it does not help in the slightest. >> >> I don't think we are going to be using this scheme to complete >> transactions. But it has to be possible to use it for applications >> such as: >> >> * Correspondence between lawyers and clients. >> * Sending statements for bank and brokerage accounts. >> * Sending invoices. > > In particular, it would be great if we could "solve" the problem such that > entities are willing to send things via email that they currently won't. For > example, my bank won't send me a copy of my monthly statement to my email > address, only a notification to look at it on their site. This "hole" seems > to be the largest in the email as the solution to paperless postal mail. > > Brandon
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