Re: [lamps] Proposed addition of header protection to the LAMPS charter

[Hernâni Marques (p≡p foundation) <[e-mail]>]

On 06.11.18 06:29, Alexey Melnikov wrote:

>> On 6 Nov 2018, at 11:57, John Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>> In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>>> 3) If it results in an RFC, would you implement?
>>
>> Not to be an old grouch or anything, but anything that affects mail
>> user interfaces is dismayingly hard to do well and easy to do in ways
>> that nobody wants to use.  When we were looking at anti-DMARC hacks
>> for the IETF mailing lists I wrote a mail reflector that wrapped
>> messages in various ways and sent them back so people could see how
>> they looked in their mail programs.  The only thing that was
>> consistent from one MUA to another was that they looked awful.
>>
>> I think header protection is a fine idea, but without some code to try
>> and see if it's usable, we're far too likely to end up with yet
>> another paper spec.
> 
> I am planning to test existing S/MIME clients that are ignorant of header protection to see how they behave. My hope is that one of 2 proposals described in my draft will result in much better UI experience for such clients. I will send results of my testing to the mailing list.

From pEp side we can also provide valuable feedback how things behave in
the field, as we're running extensive interoperability / doing trials in
within larger companies and for that adapting: e.g., there exist
extensive tests for the Microsoft world in S/MIME and PGP contexts (e.g,
w/ Symantec PGP).

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