Protection mail at rest

[Ivan Krstić]

On Jun 1, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> Not much demand for this yet, so I don't expect mature offerings any
> time soon. We'd have to build a boutique service for cipher-punks.


I doubt there'll ever be much demand. The tinfoil hat crowd will be  
bothered by the n-1 hops (and however many Narus boxes in between)  
being traversed unencrypted, while most everyone else seemingly  
doesn't care and uses GMail/Hotmail/YahooMail, forfeiting any  
expectation of privacy right from the start.

The easiest thing for people who _do_ care is still running their own  
mail server. The emergence of reasonably priced VM hosting providers  
(e.g. slicehost.com) makes it fairly uncomplicated, modulo initial  
setup.

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Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org

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