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Re: [Endymail] Hashes of key as addresses

Leo Vegoda <leo@vegoda.org> Fri, 29 August 2014 01:34 UTC

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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:34:16 -0700
From: Leo Vegoda <leo@vegoda.org>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 07:23:20PM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

[...]

> Now obviously nobody is going to want to read out a strong email
> address over the phone. But if we have the right discovery
> infrastructure in place they don't need to.

Can you please expand on this point? I think that if this is solved
then public key information would be far easier but that without it
we'll really struggle to communicate the secure form of an e-mail
address.

Thanks,

Leo

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