Re: Secure e-Mail NG?
Anders Rundgren <[email protected]>
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Hi Francesco, Yes, "certified mail" is pretty much what I would like to see on a major scale. It seems that you also pushed TLS rather than S/MIME encryption. Good Luck BTW! Anders On 2011-03-11 15:16, Francesco Gennai wrote: > Hi Anders, > > also if it doesn't represent an answer to your points of interest it could > be interesting to have a look at the following draft: > > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gennai-smime-cnipa-pec/ > > that describes a system currently used in Italy. > > It is more oriented to "certified email" than "secured email". > > Francesco > >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> smime mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/smime > > _______________________________________________ smime mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/smime