CDR: Re: New email could confound law enforcement

Ken Brown k.brown at ccs.bbk.ac.uk
Mon Sep 25 04:15:23 PDT 2000


anonymous at openpgp.net wrote:

> A start-up is set to release a novel messaging service that lets
> people send heavily encrypted email directly to each other, a 
>development that could be a boon for privacy advocates but a headache
> for law enforcement authorities.
> 
> AbsoluteFuture.com of Bellvue, Wash., has dubbed its service 
>"SafeMessage," describing it as a "direct messaging" service that 
> transmits messages from party to party without the use of a central 
> server.

[...snip...]

So you avoid using an email server by... 
  
> To use SafeMessage, a person signs on to the program with an ID 
> and password,  similarly to an >email client. When typing the
> recipient, the person sends the contact to AbsoluteFuture's 
> server,  which locates the recipient online and allows the sender 
> to send the message directly to the recipient.

...using an email server!

How clever.

Ken





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