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Re:More Encryption, More Notifications, More Email Security by falcolas on Friday March 25, 2016 @06:38PM (#11363246)
One interesting, if old, idea is to submit to an anonymous newsgroup where all messages are encrypted. You only see messages encrypted to you, and there's remarkably little metadata, so long as there is regular traffic from multiple sources.
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Re:More Encryption, More Notifications, More Email Security by toyg on Friday March 25, 2016 @08:20PM (#11363749)
What about replacing the newsgroup with a blockchain? <ducks>

(before anyone takes me seriously: this was a joke. Messaging must be ephemeral, anything else won't scale.)

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Re:More Encryption, More Notifications, More Email Security by falcolas on Friday March 25, 2016 @11:00PM (#11364246)
Not to mention that blockchain entries (at least for bitcoin) are anonymous but unique to each user. This adds metadata, and could allow an adversary to unravel your connections.
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Re:More Encryption, More Notifications, More Email Security by jdfellow on Friday March 25, 2016 @10:18PM (#11364155)
Sounds not much different from Bitmessage.
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