[Cryptography] Backup is completely separate

2013-08-31 Thread Phill
So I was thinking about Jon's claim that keys should be 'disposable'. Not sure if I buy that. But I did decide that key backup is a completely separate problem and demands a separate infrastructure. Let us imagine that I do the key-splitting and share in 5 places thing for my Comcast email. I

Re: [Cryptography] Separating concerns

2013-08-28 Thread Phill
On Aug 28, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Faré wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Phill wrote: >> My target audience, like Perry's is people who simply can't cope with >> anything more complex than an email address. For me secure mail has to look >> feel and smell e

[Cryptography] IPv6 and IPSEC

2013-08-28 Thread Phill
(This is the last week before school goes back which is stopping me getting to the big iron and my coding platform if folk are wondering where the code is). I had a discussion with some IETF types. Should I suggest a BOF in Vancouver? Maybe this is an IRTF effort rather than IETF. One thing tha

Re: [Cryptography] Why human-readable IDs (was Re: Email and IM are ideal candidates for mix networks)

2013-08-28 Thread Phill
On Aug 28, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > >> Anyway, I've already started implementing my proposed solution to that >> part of the problem. There is still a need for a distributed database to >> handle the lookup load, though, and one

[Cryptography] Separating concerns

2013-08-28 Thread Phill
My target audience, like Perry's is people who simply can't cope with anything more complex than an email address. For me secure mail has to look feel and smell exactly the same as current mail. The only difference being that sometime the secure mailer will say 'I can't contact that person secur

Re: [Cryptography] Email and IM are ideal candidates for mix networks

2013-08-26 Thread Phill
On Aug 26, 2013, at 5:27 PM, The Doctor wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/26/2013 08:46 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > >> Which is why I think Ted Lemon's idea about using Facebook type >> friending may be necessary. > > Or Gchat-style contacts. > >> I do