E-mail 2.0
To paraphrase that old adage about the weather, everyone complains about
e-mail, but no one ever does anything about it. E-mail has become a
technology that we couldn't live without in our business and personal
lives... yet it's rife with spam, viruses and fraud. In fact, one
estimate places the amount of spam at 90% of all e-mail traffic!
In response, Kelly Martin of SecurityFocus makes the modest proposal
that the backbone of our e-mail system, Simple Mail Transport Protocol
(SMTP), is fundamentally broken and should be scrapped. Designed to be
used by a handful of engineers and geeks, SMTP was excellent at what it
was designed for -- and is, indeed, the reason why e-mail has evolved
into such a successful medium. But it wasn't designed for security or
accountability, and patchwork attempts to make it so can't keep up with
the threats.
To that end, Martin proposes developing a new e-mail system that
incorporates a high level of security (encryption, compression, secure
identities and public-private-key authentication), along with
peer-to-peer instant messaging and videoconferencing. The system would
be open, of course -- and there, Martin is realistic about the
difficulty in getting the various commercial e-mailers to adopt it.
mais...
http://futurewire.blogspot.com/2006/06/e-mail-20.html
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