On 25/10/11 14:54, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Every now and again I'll meet someone who's interested in learning > about privacy and how to protect it. I do my best to help these > people along. That's what I can do, that's what's within my power, > that's the standard I judge myself by -- how well I do what good I can do.
The problem with the current proposal in that respect is that it requires co-operation of e-mail providers. If there is no significant user base, the providers don't want to cater for that very small minority that asks them to implement the extra DNS functionality. And without the functionality being offered by the e-mail providers, there is no chance to build a significant user base. If there was no dependency on third parties implementing stuff for their customers, this catch-22 would not be there. It needs to be such that an individual can say "I will install this" and then communicate with people who did the same thing. If this individual then comes to the conclusion "My provider does not support this", he would need to be very motivated indeed to do something about it. So currently there is no way to only have a few people do this, and let that group grow slowly. Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~lebbing/pubkey.txt _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
