Re: [perpass] Getting started...

[Randy Bush <[e-mail]>]

> Why not focus on providing proxies and the like to obfuscate the
> traffic path rather than trying to encrypt the routing table?

if it's cheap, do both.  every cm we can raise the bar cheaply is a win

>>> i would love it if my email client ( well, normal email clients :-)
>>> automagically encrypted to the recipients for whom i have a public key.
>>> maybe the folk way up there at layer seven can come up with an even
>>> better idea.
> Thunderbird+Enigmail does this.

yep.  trying to move family members and coworkers to that mode.  but, as
i hinted, i use a horribly irregular emacs-based email client.

> I know lots of folks with public keys, but they won't encrypt their
> email traffic, because "I have nothing to hide" --and complete bit of
> nonsense, but very prevelant.

i am hoping the frogs will notice the rising water temperature.  foolish
of me, probably.  but this is one reason why i suggested privacy by
default.