Re: getross - email privacy /security of system
Ryan Barrett <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, RossARR wrote: > To fix the problem is what I am up to now, to create a transparent > system that works with little effort if any. No hoops for PGP & Pine. that sounds great, i'm all for that. good luck! > It so happens that Outlook Express & Mozilla, client software, & most email > client software possess encryption of some type now for several years. Those > clients are off the host email system. With a firewall, that prevents the > in-house compromise problem, & a point2point encryption should work well. wow, is that true? i'd meant that they'd need to include encryption, PGP style, in their base installs. outlook and thunderbird already do that?!? or do you just mean there are plugins available? > Webmail like Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, not being client software setup on the > users PC, will never be acceptable due to the in-house problem of > compromise. To encrypt there is worthless as was previously stated here in a i don't believe that's true. webmail providers could easily encrypt and decrypt in javascript, on the local machine. they themselves would only see ciphertext. a number of sites already do this for credit cards. even better, since it's javascript, open source security people could audit it to make sure the webmail providers are doing it right. -Ryan -- http://snarfed.org/ _______________________________________________ Pine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info