Re: Why would anyone here be surprised?

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pog Premium join:2004-06-03 Kihei, HI ·Hawaiian Telcom	reply to clickie Re: Why would anyone here be surprised? said by clickie : Seems to me that it would be a rather easy to implement something to permit the recipient to verify the identity of the sender. Seems to me you need to read up on things a bit. Such systems already exist and have for many years... all have flaws, some very serious, that make them universally unadoptable. The basic fact is that email was originally built around trust and good faith... so any attempt to secure it is going to involve a kludge. There is no magic bullet... all solutions have varying levels of collateral damage and/or ineffectiveness. -- My Site
pog Premium join:2004-06-03 Kihei, HI ·Hawaiian Telcom	to forum · permalink · · 2007-08-08 15:33:10 ·
clickie join:2005-05-22 Monroe, MI	Seems to me you're making the assumption that I don't know about SPF or domainkeys, et al. They fail because they try to stop spam within the MTA and don't give enough control the recipient to determine the level of trust they're willing to accept. All that remains is the way you determine trust; X.509 certificates or various signature schemes. The MTA is built around trust, but that doesn't mean the client has to impart the same trust. Using multipart MIME formatting makes it compatible with existing mail systems, and isn't any more of a kludge than HTML/rich text formatting.
clickie join:2005-05-22 Monroe, MI	to forum · permalink · · 2007-08-08 17:50:09 ·


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