Re: The introduction problem, was Thinking outside the box

Paul Smith <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:24:04 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 19/03/2013 18:10, John Levine wrote:
>>> Not really.  In both cases, key distribution makes them unusable at
>>> large scale.
>> With the partial exception of tagged/disposable addresses, where the
>> simple password is part of the email address.
> It's still got the key distribution problem, in that it is far from
> obvious how two parties who wish to communicate using tagged addresses
> exchange the addresses in the first place.
How is it different from how two parties who wish to communicate using 
UN-tagged addresses exchange the addresses?

There seems to be something here I'm missing. If I want someone to email 
me, I tell them my address. They don't magically work it out, I have to 
tell them somehow.

Unless you've got some other way of telling what someone's email address is.



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