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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by dfc on Monday July 16, 2012 @12:15AM (#4249274)
GPG/PGP keys were the greatest missed opportunity for social networks. For example widespread acceptance of gpg/pgp would have been a great way to reduce spam.
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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by mark_l_watson on Monday July 16, 2012 @12:23AM (#4249289)
About ten years ago I had two customers who liked us to all encrypt all email. It was easy to do and fairly transparent - strange that this never caught on, at least in my experience.
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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by gallypette on Monday July 16, 2012 @02:15AM (#4249553)
"Why Johnny still can't encrypt" http://chariotsfire.com/pub/sheng-poster_abstract.pdf
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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by antninja on Monday July 16, 2012 @05:30AM (#4249950)
The best way to push the adoption of GPG is through a HTML5 crypto API that would include it. A social network or email service that doesn't work in the browser would be inaccessible from cyber-cafés or from work (two of the most popular accesses to the web in developing countries).
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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by yungchin on Monday July 16, 2012 @08:12AM (#4250342)
I usually try to avoid sweeping generalisations, but in this case... I just can't see any use at all for crypto communication where the end-points are not secure.
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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by dredmorbius on Monday July 16, 2012 @02:48AM (#4249625)
Or increase privacy and/or authentication of posts/messages.
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