Re: [dmarc-ietf] Email security beyond DMARC?

[Bernie Hoeneisen <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, John Levine wrote:

> In article <002a01d4de81$18ac27b0$4a047710$@bayviewphysicians.com> you write:
>> Can one of you elaborate on the potential connection between PeP and DMARC,
>> or more generally, the connection beteen PeP and spam filtering?
>
> I presume that PeP would make spam filtering much harder since the filters can't
> look inside the messages.

This is a mutual challenge of email systems that use true end-to-end 
encryption. While those improve Privacy, spam mitigation means need to be 
adjusted.

On the other hand, pEp (inherently) also provides some additional means 
for spam mitigation / detection (on the client), e.g. end-to-end 
authentication of the peer user.

If pEp is applied on top of existing email infrastructure (which is likely 
the case in most scenarios), DMARC can also be used in conjunction with 
pEp emails.

cheers,
  Bernie