<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Phill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hallam@gmail.com" target="_blank">hallam@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">A while ago, I proposed a new form of ‘strong email address’ that combined a PGP fingerprint like identifier with an email address:<div><br></div><div>
<span style="line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri">MB2GK-6DUF5-YGYYL-JNY5E?<a href="mailto:alice@example.com" target="_blank">alice@<wbr>example.com</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>The idea of this scheme is that <span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt">MB2GK-6DUF5-YGYYL-JNY5E</span> <wbr>is the fingerprint of a key under which a policy <br></div><div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>It is interesting that Google's Gmail allows a name+suffix.<br>Filters allow binning of the messages.<br><br>In addition dots are ignored. bob.johnson is the same as b.objohnson<br><br>Other mail tools can collect the message and validate a signature per a </div><div>local method. <br><br>I have used it to flag messages as important from friends with a pre-shared magic word.</div></div><br> <a href="mailto:friendly.guy%2Bmagickey@gmail.com">friendly.guy+magickey@gmail.com</a><br><br>Most of the interesting filters are tedious on pure Gmail but other "pop" or "imap" clients are easy.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Attachments are the obvious payload even compressed clear text or MS documents.<br>Tar balls can be renamed with a checksum that can be shared in other ways to limit</div><div class="gmail_extra">tampering.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"> T o m M i t c h e l l</div></div>
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