[Cryptography] My deployment plan for end-to-end secure email.

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 5:04 PM jrzx <jrzx at protonmail.ch> wrote:

> On Sunday, August 22nd, 2021 at 12:17 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <
> phill at hallambaker.com> wrote:
> > Threshold decryption allows encrypted documents to be shared and used
> with exactly the same
> > ease as unencrypted documents, somewhat easier in fact as there is less
> need to be concerned
> > about leaks on stolen laptops etc.
>
> As I understand your proposal, you are not actually threshold encrypting
> the documents, but threshold encrypting the permissions request to the
> master server on the cloud, which holds secrets and whose operator has to
> manage those secrets.
>

??? I am not sure what you are saying. First off, there is no threshold
'encryption' and it is only decryption that may be shared.

The GroupW public key is {W, w}

Alice holds w
Bob holds w-b, service holds b
Carol holds w-c, service holds c

Alice can add doug by creating a share w-d, d and sending them to Doug and
the service.

Alice can remove Bob by telling the service to delete b.

This is not a Snowden-is-my-keyserver-admin scheme. The service never sees
w. In fact it never sees a value that even depends on w.

We could even have a version of the scheme in which the service keys are
generated from a primary seed held by Alice and the key used to claim them
which would allow new users to be added without touching the service.



> This runs into the same problems that lead to DKIM with DMARK being unable
> to stop spearfishing attacks.
>

DKIM and DMARK only authenticate the service, ridiculous amounts of
electrons were expended on the difference between envelope from and message
from.

The main reason DKIM and DMARK fail is that they are optional though. It is
impossible to go from default insecure to default deny.
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