Re: [Endymail] Another view of the problem and what the IETF could do

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> wrote:

> On Tue,  2 Sep 2014 18:22, stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie said:
>
> > Similarly, if the list concludes that users have to understand
> > keys then that's also easy - we know that will never happen
> > and so could also call it a day.
>
> Users do understand mail addresses and thus a key should be identified
> by the mail address and not by any other property.
>
> > reinvent X.400 email security here please? (Or PEM, or MOSS,
>
> What problem do you see with MOSS?  Except for the commonly ignored
> micalg parameter it is a well working part of MIME and not a problem at
> all.  This is true for S?MIME as well as for PGP/MIME.  We are still
> talking about mail, tight?  Or is the goal of the list to replace the
> rfc822 mail format - that will never happen in the foreseeable future.
>

I think we should be open to a possible change for messaging in general and
not limit ourselves to mail.

>
>
> Salam-Shalom,
>
>    Werner
>
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