Re: [dispatch] Opportunistic encryption for email with pEp / Request for feedback

In my recent email I omitted the information that the Internet Society 
(ISOC) is diretly supporting the pEp work and it has been selected as an 
Innovative Projects for Beyond the Net Funding. Please find more 
information on:

  https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/06/12-innovative-projects-selected-for-beyond-the-net-funding/

cheers
  Bernie

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On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Bernie Hoeneisen wrote:

> Dear dispatch list
>
> After an introduction in Prague 
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/minutes-99-dispatch/>, a successful BarBoF 
> in Singapore and many hallway discussions we learned that there is 
> considerable interest for secure interpersonal messaging, which is at the 
> same time also usable and interoperable with systems already deployed out in 
> the wild. The main concept of the pretty Easy privacy (pEp) work has already 
> been published as I-D:
>
>    https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-birk-pep
>
>
> Basically it is about enhanced opportunistic encryption in email (and other 
> messaging). We are seeking more feedback on our existing work as well to find 
> the right venue (and scope) for this work to continue in the IETF.
>
> In addtion to the main draft, we are working on the following topics (to be 
> published as I-Ds shortly), whose early drafts your may access already:
>
> - New privacy-enhancing formats for email based upon already existing
>  standards, e.g. PGP/MIME (minimizing unnecessarily exposed meta data,
>  including encrypting the subject):
>  https://pep.foundation/dev/repos/internet-drafts/file/tip/pep-email/draft-birk-pep-email-NN.txt
>
> - Rating System and Privacy Status to label secure / private types of
>  communications:
>  https://pep.foundation/dev/repos/internet-drafts/file/tip/pep-rating/draft-birk-pep-rating-NN.txt
>
> - Trustwords (similar to the PGP wordlist or RFC 2289) to make
>  authenticated communications easy for end-users:
>  https://pep.foundation/dev/repos/internet-drafts/file/tip/pep-trustwords/draft-birk-pep-trustwords-NN.txt
>
>
> What do you think of this work? If this work is interestig to you, we kindly 
> ask you to express your opinion on this list.
>
> Looking forward to your feedback!
>
> Best,
> Bernie et al.
>
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