Re: [p2p-hackers] The next gen P2P secure email solution

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:58 AM, James A. Donald wrote:

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 12:34 AM, ianG wrote:

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So sad. I have a clue and don't trust Skype. But I can't for the life of me migrate my friends off of it. It's as addictive as crack. It's just better than the alternatives.

Anything that is as good as skype is going to allow contact tracing, that this person talks to that person.

No... we are specifically talking about developing decentralized solutions here, so that that centralized lookup authority context and risk goes away. Yes... a low latency non-fixed-length non-chaffed network will still have some characteristic risks... timing, etc. Yet likely nowhere near the order of the above centralized issues.

But it does not have to allow mass interception (the original skype did not allow mass interception), and it does not have to allow undetectable interception, which the original skype did allow.

That is just designing good applied crypto in the former, which nullifies the latter.