Re: [Endymail] spam versus cleartext

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Sat, 06 September 2014 12:34 UTC

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Hiya,

On 06/09/14 07:38, Eliot Lear wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> In the early days fo perpass we had lengthy discussions about the 
> tension between privacy and ability of security systems to reduce
> spam. Below is an article from a gentleman who used to work at
> Google, which I thought this group might find interesting.
> 
> https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.html

That's a good posting all right. And I agree that anyone who's
trying to offer a solution in this space has to meet the really
hard challenge of producing a system that doesn't allow spam to
take over.

But recall that this list is not here to design or pick a solution,
but rather to see what bits of IETF work might enable some
solutions to evolve successfully. So it is valid to e.g. say that
some key management foo or message format bar work would be
needed and valuable to standardise even while we don't have a
solution available for the spam problem.

Cheers,
S.


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> Eliot
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