Re:The Dream of Usable Email Encryption Is Still a Work in P...
by smt88 on Sunday March 27, 2016 @03:24PM
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> Deploying new asynchronous encrypted messaging systems
Couldn't Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and any other large email providers at least agree to transparently use a different, secure protocol among themselves? It could be something open-source (perhaps Pond) that other providers could also choose to adopt.
The mail-sending server could ping the recipient server, find out if it's a user of this new protocol or not, and then fall back to email if it doesn't receive the predetermined response.
Even if that only means that only 80% of emails were encrypted on average, that would be an improvement, wouldn't it?
Couldn't Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and any other large email providers at least agree to transparently use a different, secure protocol among themselves? It could be something open-source (perhaps Pond) that other providers could also choose to adopt.
The mail-sending server could ping the recipient server, find out if it's a user of this new protocol or not, and then fall back to email if it doesn't receive the predetermined response.
Even if that only means that only 80% of emails were encrypted on average, that would be an improvement, wouldn't it?