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Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Fri, 06 September 2013 06:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA
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On 9/6/13 5:11 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

> S/MIME is almost what we need to secure email. What is missing is an
> effective key discovery scheme. We could add that and add Ben Laurie's
> Certificate Transparency and have a pretty good start on a PRISM Proof
> email scheme.

Not when the keys reside with a service that can be coerced.

Eliot

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