On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) < [email protected]> wrote:
> We have a big pile of existing very good and very strong IETF RFC > standards for email. > > We need to improve the way those are used. > > We have OpenPGP. > We have MIME. > We have S/MIME. > We have TLS. > We have ZRTP. > We have SMTP/TLS. > Well, we have a big pile of standards, and yet Johnny Can't Encrypt™: http://www.gaudior.net/alma/johnny.pdf Please, think to use that pile of standards and think to approach email > security by improving those one. It would be irresponsible not to. There is a fine line to be walked between improving the user experience and building upon existing work. So far most attempts I've seen at improving the situation have sacrificed security for convenience. I don't think this needs to be the case. Perhaps some day I'll release some software which provides both. Working on it ;) -- Tony Arcieri
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