"If you DON'T use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

[Sunder]

The biggest hurdle and the thing that will have the most effect is to have
every MTA out there turn on Start TLS.  It won't provide a big enhancement
in terms of security at the ISP level, but it will blind the global
content search engines everywhere.  Except, of course, at those ISP's
already infected by carnivore boxes - which at least aren't allowed by law
to capture all traffic, but I wouldn't put money that they'd follow it.

So the first course of action is to convince MTA authors everywhere to
enable and turn this on.  Later, they could drop support for non-TLS
traffic.  It could also help against spamming somehow, as it will cost the
spammer a few more CPU cycles. (But this will be a very weak deterrent
against spam.)


The next hurdle will be to get Microsoft Outlook to ship with PGP - it'll
be a very very cold day in hell for that to happen.  :)  So, we'll keep
dreaming and wishing.  Certainly, if it does, only fools will trust it as
secure.


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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Sarad AV wrote:

> HI,
> 
> >TD wrote-
> > that, increased use of 
> > crypto implies increased cost of monitoring. 
> 
> If a larger population starts using cryptography, we
> can compare it to U.S mail. The govt. any way can't go
> through all the snail mails due to its sheer volume.
> They rely on other methods to detect and nullify
> terror threats. Even if every one started using
> encryption, the govt will not spend any money to
> decrypt all the messages. The govt will use other
> mechanisms(intelligece) to detect which cipher text is
> worth breaking. More people using cryptography is good
> for the crypto community, in terms of dollars,interest
> and development in this particular area.