Re: [cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public

2014-09-18 Thread Henry Augustus Chamberlain
On 17/09/2014, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: Putting keys into some_encod...@example.com might cover some bases related to offline key lookup and message validation. Most user and system mail tools would need changes to handle string width and keytype, addressbooks updated, etc. Totally

Re: [cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public

2014-09-18 Thread stef
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 09:06:53AM +0200, Henry Augustus Chamberlain wrote: currently able to use email encryption at all! I think both concerns are fair, and both are worth trying to solve. let me summarize (and ask you to reread and understand) grapamps response to you: email is dead. --

Re: [cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public

2014-09-18 Thread Krisztián Pintér
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:57 AM, stef s...@ctrlc.hu wrote: let me summarize (and ask you to reread and understand) grapamps response to you: email is dead. email is not dead, it is a zombie that walks around for at least 20 years. btw do you guys aware of IM2000? http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html

Re: [cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public

2014-09-18 Thread stef
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:13:04AM +0200, Krisztián Pintér wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:57 AM, stef s...@ctrlc.hu wrote: let me summarize (and ask you to reread and understand) grapamps response to you: email is dead. email is not dead, it is a zombie that walks around for at least 20

Re: [cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public

2014-09-18 Thread Peter Gutmann
stef s...@ctrlc.hu writes: let me summarize (and ask you to reread and understand) grapamps response to you: email is dead. ... he said, via email. Peter. ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public

2014-09-18 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 03:43:29PM +0200, Henry Augustus Chamberlain wrote: I propose that we use the local part of the email address to store the public key, so instead of henryaugustuschamberl...@gmail.com, my email address would be (64 random letters)@gmail.com. This breaks an E-mail use

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public

2014-09-18 Thread grarpamp
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Jonathan Thornburg jth...@astro.indiana.edu business to E-mail me a receipt/confirmation/whatever.) Getting the spelling of $spouse's (8-letter, but odd to many people) E-mail correct over a poor-quality phone connection is hard enough already!