-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.leitl.org 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:24:46 -0800 From: Don Marti <dmarti@zgp.org> To: linux-elitists@zgp.org Subject: Re: [linux-elitists] Phil Zimmermann on key exchange begin Seth David Schoen quotation of Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:42:26PM -0800:

Reviving a thread from last month:

(More on encrypted email infrastructure from Seth: http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/2001-12-07.html)

The Board of Directors of EFF met today in San Francisco, and I made a presentation about this, in the presence of Brad Templeton and others. One of the conclusions was that EFF's role in implementing something like this is still not defined clearly enough, and we don't know what we could most usefully do.

In order to seriously deploy encrypted email you need to kick the email client support problem and the key management problem at the same time. One possible role for EFF would be as a founding member of an encrypted email industry consortium analogous to W3C. Such an organization would have to be positioned as a way to fight cyberterrorism and protect infrastructure. It would be nice to get Ximian, the KDE project and Qualcomm to join, and use the words "Secure Email" or "Email Security" in the organization's name somewhere. You probably aren't going to get any mail client vendor that depends on many Secret Police customers to join. -- Don Marti What do we want? Free Dmitry! When do we want it? Now! http://zgp.org/~dmarti dmarti@zgp.org Free the web, burn all GIFs. KG6INA http://burnallgifs.org/ _______________________________________________ linux-elitists http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-elitists