Re: how email encryption should work (and how to get it used...)

2005-05-25 Thread Amir Herzberg
James A. Donald responded to me: A missing element is motivation for getting something like this deployed... I think spam could offer such motivation; and, I strongly believe that a cryptographic protocol to penalize spammers could be one of the most important tools against spam. The cure fo

Re: how email encryption should work (and how to get it used...)

2005-05-23 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 30 Mar 2005 at 13:00, Amir Herzberg wrote: > A missing element is motivation for getting something > like this deployed... I think spam could offer such > motivation; and, I strongly believe that a > cryptographic protocol to penalize spammers could be > one of the most important tools a

Re: how email encryption should work (and how to get it used...)

2005-05-20 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 30 Mar 2005 at 13:00, Amir Herzberg wrote: > A missing element is motivation for getting something > like this deployed... I think spam could offer such > motivation; Phishing is costing billions, and is a major obstacle to electronic commerce. In my judgment, fixing phishing and f

Re: how email encryption should work (and how to get it used...)

2005-05-20 Thread Amir Herzberg
I think this is a good summary of how it should work, except, that I don't think messages should be signed by default, only authenticated (MAC). Users should be clearly aware of making a non-repudable statement. Plus, it may be preferable to use something like matasignatures.org to ensure authe