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Re: [Endymail] Improvements to S/MIME

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Sun, 14 September 2014 09:06 UTC

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On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:13, weihaw@google.com said:

> Right I agree that there is a RFC5751 sec 3.1 (
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5751#page-18 ) that mentions the
> message/rfc822, but unless I'm missing something one still has to specify
> the intended recipient, and a return path.  Even if the body and most

Mixmaster does this for ages.  Mutt has support for Mixmaster for more
than 15 years.  Changing this to work at all levels using MIME
containers won't be too hard.  For stronger anonymity the MTAs may use
TOR or similar.  Agreed, this is not a problem of standards but of doing
the work.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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