Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situation be fixed?
Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Tue, 16 August 2016 20:29 UTC
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situation be fixed?
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On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 10:37 AM, ianG <iang@iang.org> wrote: > > Right - that word legacy. My experiences are that you can get both of the > tech stacks to handle the requirements with enough nailing and pain. But > at some point the tech stack starts to interfere too dramatically, and > you're better off starting again. > > One issue to bear in mind is that we are talking about a rather narrow and > dated concept - email. In the pre-web world, all comms was basically > email. Most comms these days is not email. And, what we knew about what > was interesting in the late 1980s early 1990s is no longer the text book. > Other methods/views/requirements are much more interesting. > > Which is to say, we could narrow the scope so that we could get these > tools to finally slay the dual standard dragon, but we'd still be slaying a > beast that is no longer big and scary. > > iang, chiming in yonks late. My thoughts pretty much. I see three possible paths towards convergence and I am trying for all three. 1) Converge S/MIME and OpenPGP standards to the point that they are functionally interoperable. So just like the fact that 120V and 240V are still in use, pretty much every laptop you buy will work on either without issue. The supply voltage is no longer an issue for most equipment. 2) As in (1) above but the systems merge to the point that one or the other 'wins'. 3) Propose a completely new infrastructure that might supersede both because it offers a major functional advance. I don't see much point in a third standard that does the same as OpenPGP and S/MIME. But where there is opportunity is to offer wider functionality. * If I have someone's public key, I should be able to contact them securely by mail, chat, messaging, voice or video. * Integrating proxy re-encryption into the system so that it is possible to have end to end secure confidential mailing lists, controlled document distribution and support for individually keyed devices. Right now I am looking at how to make use of proxy re-encryption as a 'clean slate' proposal. Once I get that working we can look at the system and decide whether it makes sense to back-engineer it into legacy systems or not.
- Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situatio… Werner Koch
- Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situatio… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situatio… Derek Atkins
- Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situatio… Phillip Hallam-Baker
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- Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situatio… Peter Gutmann
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- Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situatio… Watson Ladd
- Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situatio… Vincent Breitmoser
- Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situatio… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situatio… Peter Gutmann
- Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situatio… Phillip Hallam-Baker
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- Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situatio… Thijs van Dijk
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- Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situatio… ianG
- Re: [openpgp] Can the OpenPGP vs. S/MIME situatio… Stephen Paul Weber
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