I really hate the licensing on that add-on, by the way -- it flies in the face of what
freedom is, and they call it the "doubly-free" license by removing the freedom
associated with the GPL?
-Kyle H
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Gervase Markham<g...@mozilla.org> wrote:
On 24/06/09 23:49, Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
S/MIME's protection of message authenticity, integrity and confidentiality
are unbroken and unsurpassed. It is implemented in most Windows, Mac and
Linux email MUA's today. But only a small minority of mail users use MUAs
that reside on their own computers today. Webmail rules, and entrusting
your private key to your free webmail provider makes no sense at all.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/592 :-)
The biggest impediment to secure email today is the existence and
popularity
of webmail. In Mozilla terms, the biggest impediment to Thunderbird today
is Firefox.
It seems that people are happy to make the trade-off of privacy against
convenience here. I suspect it's unlikely that we are going to be able to
change their minds on that. Hence extensions like the above.
Do you remember what happened to MD5? Without crypto agility, the only
solution would have been an "Internet flag day", on which the whole world
obsoleted and replaced its old MD5 stuff with some newer hash. Crypto
agility allowed a smooth effortless migration for all but a few
stragglers.
+1 for crypto agility.
Gerv
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