> > PRELIMINARIES > > In the '90 (I am old!) I was a moderated evangelist of the universal use > of PGP (and later GPG) and public key infrastructure (web of trust) in > order to achieve acceptable universal privacy and trust in email > communication. > > At the time I have a good comprehension of the principles involved. > Although I am physics´s PhD, I have also been a computer buff since the > '70 and almost all my work involve and has always involved a lot of > mathematics, computers and all sort of information technologies. > > At that time most of the people, using email, did that through an email > client (that was usually also a news - remember usenet - client ) using > the POP (POP3) and latter IMAP and IMAP4. protocols. > > HOWEVER > > The idea NEVER took off, despite the internet users, at that time, were > quite well-informed about the technicalities of the technology they used. > > I still maintain a neat pair of public-private keys, with an insanely > complex password, and keeping the private key itself inside a password > manager utility (keePass) together with more mundane passwords. > > (Once in a while I use my public key to encode sensitive documents, that I > may or may not, send as email attachments). > > FAST FORWARD > > Nowadays most people use web-mail (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, outlook.com, > etc), not pop mail, and understand almost nothing of computer science (rare > web-mail providers let you use POP/IMAP, most times under conditions). > > And in a very next future they will be using iOS, android, ChromeOS (all, > in any of the available versions) just to mention the more popular ones > at the moment, that not even use (E)SMTP, I think. > > > Facing those facts I concluded that the idea of private email for the > masses is not feasible in the near future. > > Write a document->encrypt with public key->send as an email attachmente > (better as compressed RAR) is the only option I found useful yet. To sign > the document can also be useful. > > ANY COMMENT? > > Is useless to refer magic software in test that will solve everything, but > is not going to materialize ever. > >
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