Re: [Endymail] spam versus cleartext

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>]

TLS has enabled e-commerce which is generally held responsible for adding an extra trillion dollars a year to global GDP.

Email security is not going to be so dramatic but it allows a lot of the holes in the e-commerce interface to be filled in. And that could be worth a few percent extra growth of e-commerce.

Lets say it is 1 percent, or rather, lets say that we can make people think it is 1 percent. That is ten billion dollars a year.

1% of that is a hundred million and we can buy a lot of servers and other infrastructure with that.


If we get the security in the specs we can easily make transactions machine readable.


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> On Sep 8, 2014, at 5:13 PM, Brandon Long <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Eliot Lear <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> > Let's talk constraints for a moment.  Does the problem get easier if we
>> > say, “let's not even attempt to address transactional email”, and focus
>> > exclusively on h2h?  Also, is it a goal to completely do away with
>> > spam?  Is that a non-goal?
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>> Transactional mail is the easiest to do and has the biggest payoff. So
>> no, not doing it does not help in the slightest.
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>> I don't think we are going to be using this scheme to complete
>> transactions. But it has to be possible to use it for applications
>> such as:
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>> * Correspondence between lawyers and clients.
>> * Sending statements for bank and brokerage accounts.
>> * Sending invoices.
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> In particular, it would be great if we could "solve" the problem such that entities are willing to send things via email that they currently won't.  For example, my bank won't send me a copy of my monthly statement to my email address, only a notification to look at it on their site.  This "hole" seems to be the largest in the email as the solution to paperless postal mail.
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> Brandon