Joseph Solbrig wrote:

> >You could for example use very
> >similar code to create a email based system on top Freenet (using
> >SMTP->Freenet and Freenet->IMAP apps), but with the unfortunate property
> >that you could read every single email sent to any person (as long as you
> >know their "email".
> 
> Well, theoretically, encryption should take care of that.

Yeah, but what if someone forgets to encrypt or does it wrong?  Even with
encryption, would you want anybody to be able to read all email sent to
you?  Even current systems are better, since you need to compromise the
destination machine, while here anybody on the Freenet can read your email
with trivial effort.

-- 
Itamar S.T.  itamar at maxnm.com

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