My view - as controversial as ever - is that the problem
is unfixable, and mail will eventually fade away. That
which will take its place is p2p / IM / chat / SMS based.
Which are easier to spam and less secure than smtp.
SMTP is p2p by definition, though you can use servers if you want.
SMS
On 2005-03-03T11:52:59+, ken wrote:
Chat is already higher volume (I read somewhere) in
raw quantity of messages sent than email.
I suspect you don't get much traffic. The beauty of a
non-real-time store-and-forward system like smtp (or SMS, or
oldstyle conferencing systems with
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Peter Gutmann wrote:
(Either this is a really bad idea or the details have been mangled by the
Register).
No, it's just a really bad idea. A small group of us looked at this a few
weeks ago when it was announced, and while none of us are professional
cryptographers, we
The description has virtually nothing to do with the actual algorithm
proposed. Follow the link in the article - http://www.stealth-attacks.info/ -
for an actual - if informal - description.
There is no actual description publically available (there are three
completely different protocols
| Briefly, it works like this: point A transmits an encrypted message to point
| B. Point B can decrypt this, if it knows the password. The decrypted text is
| then sent back to point A, which can verify the decryption, and confirm that
| point B really does know point A's password. Point A then
