Re: a few short notes

Paul Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ng
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 17:49 01/02/2004, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>>Important point: as long as email is a store and forward mechanism, 
>>encrypting the transport makes little sense: encryption should be end-to-end.
>
>to me, if there's any opportunity to cross a network in plain-text, the 
>proposal is dead.

To me, if there's a requirement to add unnecessary complexity, the proposal 
is dead..

My toaster with 8kb ROM and 512 bytes RAM wants to email me to say my toast 
is browning nicely. Not a problem with SMTP, big problem with SSL, 
certificates, XML etc. ;-)


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