On 2013-08-17 16:24, Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
In light of the inherent flaws, lax security model of current email,
bitmessage has been suggested as an alternative. I want to see your
comment
on what you think of such a system.
Since I have never been an admin for email on a server I am not able to
say
if this is good or bad.
I don't think it's a replacement for email. Now, when it comes to
"the lax security model of email", have a look into ESMTPS, which some email
services use. ESMTPS encrypts the email transfer, such that the user
doesn't need to do anything special for this to happen. ESMTPS is still
important even when using GPG-encrypted messages, because GPG encrypts
the body of the message but not who the message is To/From or the Subject.
There are a bunch of email services using ESMTPS today, and you wouldn't
know it until you look at the mail headers for messages you've received.
;-) [Look for ESMTPS and/or TLS in the Received: lines.]
Sounds good, but that usually ends up meaning its not....
https://bitmessage.org/bitmessage.pdf [1]
https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page [2]
This sounds more like a "secure Twitter protocol" than an email
protocol.
-- Chris
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Chris Knadle
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