On 2/12/2024 4:37 PM, Mark Milhollan via mailop wrote:
On Mon, 12 Feb 2024, Dave Crocker wrote:
1. S/MIME has been around for 25 years. While it has gained
respectable amounts of implementation in MUAs, it has achieved use
only in specialized environments.
Google could greatly accelerate its uptake by automatically providing
every freemail account with a certificate (DV cert style, i.e.,
without a fullname) and adding it and a signature to every message,
and an indicator on messages received.
Certificates are not magic symbols of safety.
Please think through the maintenance and use issues, end-to-end,
including how to handle new, legitimate folk you've never met before but
-- it will turn out -- you don't mind getting an unsolicited message from.
Of all of email's problem's, the most intractable is the widespread and
continuing insistence that its problems can be solved simply.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social
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