Re: Secure e-Mail NG?

Patrick Patterson <[email protected]>
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Hi Anders:

You may be interested in PLASMA - the draft is:

http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-freeman-message-access-control-req-00.txt

I believe there will be a BOF at the upcoming meeting in Prague.

Best Regards,

Patrick.

On 2011-03-11, at 2:27 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote:

> As an active e-mail user I have always found email indispensable.
> That e-mail also is the least secure messaging system there is of course a nuisance.
> 
> Although e-mail hast lost some of its importance to other communication systems,
> I still think it is worth an upgrade.
> 
> STARTTLS is nice but its key handling and integration in e-mail clients is not
> particularly useful.  Sending non-encrypted messages should be an exception.
> 
> IMHO, STARTTLS, DOMKEY and email clients could be combined so that we
> get domain-secured e-mail as default.
> 
> Or is it better to create an entirely new messaging system to get rid of the legacy?
> 
> I believe the update frequency of today makes client upgrades a no-issue.
> 
> Anders
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