On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 12:41:52AM +0100, Nicholas Cole wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Robert J. Hansen <[email protected]> > wrote: [snip] > > OpenPGP's biggest problem, BTW, which goes *completely unmentioned* in > > this blogpost: OpenPGP can't protect your metadata, and that turns out > > to often be higher-value content than your emails themselves are. > > Further, exposed metadata is inherent to SMTP, which means this problem > > is going to be absolutely devilish to fix. > > That is true. But perhaps it would be a start if email clients > actually put the actual email (with subject and references headers > etc.) as an attachment to a bare email that contained only the minimal > headers for delivery. It wouldn't be a perfect solution, but it would > at least fix a certain amount of metadata analysis.
Perhaps it would be a start if sites providing SMTP would turn on STARTTLS. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu
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