[Cryptography] Functional specification for email client?

Jonathan Thornburg jthorn at astro.indiana.edu
Fri Aug 30 16:52:27 EDT 2013


On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> 3.  When an email user gets an email, s/he is absolutely sure that it comes
>     from the person who holds the email address listed in its "from" line.
>     S/he may or may not have any clue who that person is.  S/he is also
>     sure that no one else has seen the contents of the email.

This probably needs amending to deal with messages addressed to multiple
recipients (either cc:, bcc:, or simply multiple to: addresses).

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-- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" <jthorn at astro.indiana-zebra.edu>
   Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
   "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched
    at any given moment.  How often, or on what system, the Thought Police
    plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.  It was even conceivable
    that they watched everybody all the time."  -- George Orwell, "1984"


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