Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public
On 2014-Sep-18 20:39, grarpamp wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Jonathan Thornburg jth...@astro.indiana.edu business to E-mail me a receipt/confirmation/whatever.) Getting the spelling of $spouse's (8-letter, but odd to many people) E-mail correct over a poor-quality phone connection is hard enough already! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet Caveat lack of UTF-8 coverage... There's enough in there to send hex or octal representations ;-). smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 06:57, g...@toad.com said: She can send you email at de...@ihtfp.com once, and when your replies all come from: From: Derek Atkins lkjasdflksdlkjp2338tnlsdfh848492-hds8f...@ihtfp.com then when she replies to you, she'll be sending encrypted emails. But The same can be achieved with a separate mail header for the key and a local association of key and mail address for future communication (which you need for the above scheme also). Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public
very good suggestion! i've been following this thread with interest. relevant to a commercial product i am working on. i thought keeping the key in the address book was the most practical idea. but, you still have to exchange the keys. the biggest problem is the lookup for a key in a key server (keystore). but, automatically sending a separate header sounds, er...automatic, transparent to the user. and lets the system do the work. long, more than 10 digits, unintelligible email addresses won't work. imho. can't be memorized, even if chunked. too many pieces. On 9/19/2014 4:31 AM, Werner Koch wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 06:57, g...@toad.com said: She can send you email at de...@ihtfp.com once, and when your replies all come from: From: Derek Atkins lkjasdflksdlkjp2338tnlsdfh848492-hds8f...@ihtfp.com then when she replies to you, she'll be sending encrypted emails. But The same can be achieved with a separate mail header for the key and a local association of key and mail address for future communication (which you need for the above scheme also). Shalom-Salam, Werner ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:37, givo...@gmx.com said: for a key in a key server (keystore). but, automatically sending a separate header sounds, er...automatic, transparent to the user. and lets the system do the work. long, more than 10 digits, Actually such a header and an I-D exists for close to a decade https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-josefsson-openpgp-mailnews-header/ Example: OpenPGP: id=1E42B367; url=finger:w...@g10code.com Maybe it can be extended with a use=always parameter. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 03:43:29PM +0200, Henry Augustus Chamberlain wrote: I propose that we use the local part of the email address to store the public key, so instead of henryaugustuschamberl...@gmail.com, my email address would be (64 random letters)@gmail.com. This breaks an E-mail use case that I often use fairly frequently: I need to read someone my E-mail address over the phone. (For example, I've just completed some transaction by telephone, and I'd like the business to E-mail me a receipt/confirmation/whatever.) Getting the spelling of $spouse's (8-letter, but odd to many people) E-mail correct over a poor-quality phone connection is hard enough already! ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. -- George Orwell, 1984 ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email encryption for the wider public
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Jonathan Thornburg jth...@astro.indiana.edu business to E-mail me a receipt/confirmation/whatever.) Getting the spelling of $spouse's (8-letter, but odd to many people) E-mail correct over a poor-quality phone connection is hard enough already! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet Caveat lack of UTF-8 coverage... ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
