On 12/30/2013 12:38 PM, Paul Lambert wrote:
Another approach, however, is to start from scratch and to define an
>entirely new email system, which uses cryptographic addresses instead of
>human-readable identifiers. I guess that's the approach you are
>suggesting. Is this correct?
Yes - we should start from scratch (versus direct
augmentation of S/MIME/PKI or PGP).
Starting from scratch to build a new email system is not likely to
succeed, any more than the various, earlier efforts to do that
succeeded, back when the installed base was a few orders of magnitude
smaller and adoption of a new system relatively easier.
And then there is the small matter of wondering how viable the human
factors of cryptographic email addresses will prove to be...
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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