Re: [HR-rt] [hrpc] Internet Architecture Board warns Australian encryption-busting laws could fragment the internet
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Subject: Re: [HR-rt] [hrpc] Internet Architecture Board warns Australian encryption-busting laws could fragment the internet
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A quick and very informal statistical glance at the ratio of successful vs unsuccessful SMTP TLS connections at this ISP (TheWorld.com) showed about 10% success. Granted that might be skewed by the number of totally insincere attempts by spammers and similar. But sometimes things look different from the trenches. I'm a little disturbed that the soon to be mandatory Danish recommendations specifically call for S/MIME certificates. There's nothing wrong with them -- well there are problems, everything has problems, e.g., EFAIL -- but there are other alternatives. I'll hope one can read that as "...or equivalent industry standard encryption methods". Another problem which leaps to mind is that email delivery is inherently store-and-forward which means a message might travel through various jurisdictions before final delivery. The bigger point is the sentiments might be laudable but the practical issues loom nonetheless. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*