Hi Watson, ID-based crypto is not at all an obvious choice for email security.
I would even go further by saying that ID-based crypto has been a solution in search for a problem so far. In my investigations (based on prior proposals in the IETF) I could not find benefits with ID-based crypto. Ciao Hannes On 12/29/2013 07:38 PM, Watson Ladd wrote: > One obvious solution for end-to-end email encryption is to use > ID-based cryptography: a new record type would be defined in the DNS > containing the system key for an ID-based system, and the username > (everything before the '@') would be the identity used. This would not > obscure addresses or the fact of communication right now, but would > prevent interception at intermediate nodes. It would be webmail > compatible. > > Are there any issues beyond the merely cryptographic that I need to > consider here? Can this be shoehorned into S/MIME, or do we need to do > something new? In the next few days I will try to make a > draft/implementation for this. > > Sincerely, > Watson Ladd > _______________________________________________ > perpass mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
