[Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

[James A. Donald]

On 2013-11-26 01:05, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> E-mail is basically business correspondence.
>
>      - E-mail is stored.
>      - E-mail is sent to many people outside your personal social network.
>      - Business recipients of email are often subject to corporate and/or
>        regulatory policy constraints that are in conflict with end-to-end
>        encryption.

By and large, businesses would love, love, very much love, a 
communication system in which information that could be used against 
them only existed on the computers of the sender and the recipient, and 
disappeared when deleted.

Naturally they would promise never to delete it if notified that it was 
subject to a lawsuit.