On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:49 AM, rysiek <rysiek@hackerspace.pl> wrote:
Dnia wtorek, 22 kwietnia 2014 20:58:50 tpb-crypto@laposte.net pisze:
Although technical solutions are feasible
Then do it and see what happens.
we ought to consider some things: - Email is older than the web itself;
So is TCP/IP and the transistor. Irrelevant.
- Email has three times as many users as all social networks combined;
And how did those nets get any users when 'email' was supposedly working just fine?
- Email is entrenched in the offices, many a business is powered by it;
They are powered by authorized access to and useful end use of message content, not by email. That's not going anywhere, only the intermediate transport is being redesigned.
Given the enormous energy necessary to remove such an appliance and replace
Removal is different from introducing competitive alternatives.
it with something better. How could we make a secure solution that plays nicely with the current tools without disturbing too much what is already established?
By writing a gateway (i.e. between RetroShare and e-mail)?
MUA's become file readers and composers. They hand off to a localhost daemon that recognizes different address formats of the network[s] and does the right thing. Perhaps they compile against additional necessary network/crypto libs. Whatever it is, those are not a big change. Ditching centralized SMTP transport in the clear is... and for the better. Reread the threads, forget about that old SMTP box, think new.