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Re: [Cryptography] The next generation secure email solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephan Neuhaus)
Tue Dec 17 13:49:11 2013
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:43:18 +0100
From: Stephan Neuhaus <stephan.neuhaus@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, jamesd@echeque.com
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On 2013-12-17, 07:29, John Gilmore wrote:
>> Need a system for handing one's keys around that protects end users from
>> the horrifying sight of actual keys or actual strong hashes of keys.
>
> But at the same time the system has to not say, "I can't deliver your
> message to that person because an invisible gnotzaframmit that I won't
> describe to you seems to be unavailable to me in the flabogrommit."
I think this is the most succinct summary of this particular conundrum
that I have ever seen. May I steal it for my lectures?
Fun,
Stephan
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