Re:How to Replace IMAP
by nfnaaron on Thursday February 04, 2010 @04:57PM
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I can't say whether his implementation makes sense.
Regardless, I would like to see public key encryption of all email. There's no reason why messages should be plain text anywhere except at the two ends.
I realize key management would be a problem, but it's probably a solvable problem. The solution would have to allow most people to be practically unaware of encryption issues.
Re:How to Replace IMAP
by conover on Friday February 05, 2010 @10:58AM
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Wouldn't it make spam impractical because you would all of a sudden need much more processing power to encrypt the messages (especially millions of them)?
Regardless, I would like to see public key encryption of all email. There's no reason why messages should be plain text anywhere except at the two ends.
I realize key management would be a problem, but it's probably a solvable problem. The solution would have to allow most people to be practically unaware of encryption issues.