[ih] email at scale

[Dave Crocker]

On 5/14/2012 12:43 AM, paul vixie wrote:
> the people who are willing to put that much effort into their e-mail
> communications are few and far between. we can build for utility at
> scale, or privacy and authenticity at scale, but not both.

I think we do not have an existence proof for privacy and authenticity 
at scale.

There is some foundation for believing that the issue is not a matter of 
trade-offs but of state of the art, especially the human factors 
(usability) art.

A common view is that good security cannot be easy to use.  It might 
even be true.

d/
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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
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