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Re: [Cryptography] Explaining PK to grandma
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Wed Nov 27 23:34:43 2013
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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:19:57 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: Richard Clayton <richard@highwayman.com>
In-Reply-To: <O2jQLTB3mglSFApf@highwayman.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Reply-To: jamesd@echeque.com
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> > We know in principle how implement email such that the from field works,
On 2013-11-28 01:03, Richard Clayton wrote:
> The DMARC folks would argue that they have already have a deployed
> scheme for doing this in _practice_, which now protects a very high
> proportion of mailboxes
If this works, I will have to retract what I have so frequently said
about the dead weight of existing widely deployed protocols, and the
incapacity of committees.
It is, however the umpteenth try to make spf and dkim actually useful,
which is not a good sign.
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