Re: mail crypto, was the introduction problem, was Email

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 5/4/22 16:40, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> I imagine that the bulk of mail sent/delivered is:
>   1) between large mail providers (hotmail, gmail, etc)
>   2) business-to-business
>
> The 1st is certainly not (after a few well publicized incidents) 
> storing plaintext on disk for folk to read...

No, but that doesn't mean that "folk" cannot read it.

> The second almost all use a form of 'exchange' that .. also doesn't 
> store plain text on disk...
>   (and really the 2nd is subject to the employer/business having the 
> remit to review anyway...)

agree.   I expect that even if we had a widely usable standard for 
end-to-end encrypted mail, businesses would refuse to use it without 
some way for them to automatically analyze and perhaps archive the 
cleartext of inbound and/or outbound mail, whether for virus filtering, 
detection of intellectual property being leaked, to meet legal 
requirements in certain kinds of business, or whatever.

Keith