Le 16/07/2016 à 16:39, Phil Stracchino a écrit :
> On 07/16/16 10:32, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
>> Am 16.07.16 15:59 schrieb(en) Michael Fox:
>>> So, are there other obvious ways to recognize encrypted contents, other than
>>> "Content-Type: multipart/encrypted"?
>> Basically, you need to check for
>> - OpenPGP/Inline (inspect every body, see rfc 2440, sect. 6.2)
>> - OpenPGP/Mime (multipart/encrypted, see rfc 3156, sect. 4)
>> - S/MIME (application/pkcs7-mime with a proper protocol type, see rfc 2633, 
>> sect. 3.8)
>>
>> BTW, IMHO this is the *completely* wrong approach - people should be 
>> *encouraged* to use encryption, at least since we know for sure that their 
>> privacy is threatened everywhere...
> Anyone who knows Theresa May, former UK Home Secretary, just selected as
> the new head of the Conservative party, will be unsurprised to know that
> almost her first public position pronunciation was that she sees no
> problem with passing laws in the UK to prohibit end-to-end encryption
> and require ISPs et al to provide backdoors into all encrypted traffic.
> Because, you know, that idea has no flaws *whatsoever* and has *never*
> ended badly anywhere else...
>
>
And the fact that UK policemen where caught using snooping provision for
personal usage and financial gain won't stop her.


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