Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-28 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 11/27/13, 10:01 PM, Jeffrey Walton ha scritto: The problem with DANE is the lack of DNSSEC. If we had both [...] When I refer to DANE, I also mean that DNSSEC must be there. We're getting there. Isn't the key distribution problem being pushed into DNS? The underlying problem still

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-27 Thread Nico Williams
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:51:41PM +, Stephen Farrell wrote: New work on improving hop-by-hop security for email and other things is getting underway in the IETF. [1] Basically the idea I see nothing in the proposed charter you linked to about hop-by-hop security. I could imagine something

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-27 Thread Nico Williams
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 06:02:08PM +, Stephen Farrell wrote: On 11/27/2013 05:42 PM, Nico Williams wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:51:41PM +, Stephen Farrell wrote: New work on improving hop-by-hop security for email and other things is getting underway in the IETF. [1] Basically

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-27 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 11/27/2013 06:58 PM, Nico Williams wrote: I could imagine something like Received headers to document how each SMTP (and SUBMIT) end-point was authenticated (if they were) along a mail transfer path. This would be of some utility, particularly for *short* paths

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-27 Thread Nico Williams
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 08:01:19PM +, Stephen Farrell wrote: On 11/27/2013 06:58 PM, Nico Williams wrote: [...] I'm not sure detecting the path length in terms of ADMDs is so easy, not so useful in terms of MTAs (with all the spam checking Sure it is! Nowadays the path should

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 08:01:19PM +, Stephen Farrell wrote: On 11/27/2013 06:58 PM, Nico Williams wrote: [...] The problem with DANE is the lack of DNSSEC. If we had both [...] When I refer to DANE, I also

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-27 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 11/27/2013 09:01 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Isn't the key distribution problem being pushed into DNS? The underlying problem still exists. Depends. If say someone ended up sampling the mail header field values seen over a lot of messages then exceptions to key continuity for mail service

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-27 Thread Natanael
So, Convergence/Perspectives done on email headers? - Sent from my phone Den 27 nov 2013 22:07 skrev Stephen Farrell stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie: On 11/27/2013 09:01 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Isn't the key distribution problem being pushed into DNS? The underlying problem still exists.

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-27 Thread Nico Williams
Viktor Dukhovni says that anything like DKIM/SPF is bound to fail. One problem is confusables: users can't really distinguish them, and some can be counted on just doing whatever it takes to give their money to the phisher, no matter what. In other words, the problem with e-mail is that

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-27 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 11/27/2013 09:29 PM, Nico Williams wrote: Viktor Dukhovni says that anything like DKIM/SPF is bound to fail. One problem is confusables: users can't really distinguish them, and some can be counted on just doing whatever it takes to give their money to the phisher, no matter what. In

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-26 Thread ianG
On 26/11/13 03:03 AM, coderman wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Stephen Farrell stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie wrote: ... Personally, I'm not at all confident that we can do something that provides end-to-end security, can be deployed at full Internet scale and is compatible with today's

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-26 Thread c1cc10
If we're discussing about this topic it is because of people. emails are one people's need: as techis we could create and use any other fancy communication means and do not bother. So if we want to bring a new communication infrastructure for everybody we cannot jump over the existing one, which

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-26 Thread Natanael
That can really only be solved by gateways, IMHO. It's the only way to talk between the systems that don't put limits on how secure either one can be. - Sent from my phone Den 26 nov 2013 16:09 skrev c1cc10 r...@isolved.it: If we're discussing about this topic it is because of people. emails

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-25 Thread Natanael
Say hello to Bote mail on I2P. I2P provides encrypted anonymizing networking, Bote mail provides DHT based serverless encrypted mailing with public crypto keys as addresses (ECDSA or NTRU). http://i2p2.de and i2pbote.i2p (if you don't have I2P installed, add .us to visit it via an inproxy).

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-25 Thread grarpamp
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:01 AM, ianG i...@iang.org wrote: On 23/11/13 15:30 PM, Ralf Senderek wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2013, David Mercer wrote: But of course you're right about actual current usage, encrypted email is an epic fail on that measure regardless of format/protocol. Yes, but it's

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-25 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
I'm strongly against most the ideas to abbandon current email systems, because the results will be to create wallet garden. We need something interoperable with existing systems or the system will just be used by a bunch of paranoid people or fostered by the marketing of few cryptography company

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-25 Thread Natanael
And there's your problem - you can at best only add gateways/proxies, you can't actually improve the existing protocols in any meaningful way. - Sent from my phone Den 25 nov 2013 21:09 skrev Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) li...@infosecurity.ch: I'm strongly against most the ideas to abbandon

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-25 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 11/25/2013 08:09 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: Let's first cut-off the massive passive traffic analysis, then improve current systems to provide some added protection against metadata, focusing in a far future, when the new system got already wide adoption, make it perfect. New

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-25 Thread coderman
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Stephen Farrell stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie wrote: ... Personally, I'm not at all confident that we can do something that provides end-to-end security, can be deployed at full Internet scale and is compatible with today's email protocols. But if others are more