Looking for feedback on Passive Privacy System

Aaron Sherman ajs@ajs.com
Thu Mar 15 17:46:06 2001


On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:33:25AM +0000, Robin O'Leary wrote:


> The Passive Privacy System proposal only considers the key exchange
> process. It is hard to see how the key exchange protocol could make an
> initial offer, having no shared knowledge, while also being undetectable.
> So the key exchange has to be open. What you do with the keys then is
> up to you and correctly not specified by PPS.
Gee, I feel kind of odd. PPS *does* require that encryption be performed after initial key-exchange. This is the point of PPS: universal encryption of all email. Check out the FAQ at http://www.ajs.com/~ajs/pps/faq.html (more a Frequently *Anticipated* Questions list than anything, at this point). -- Aaron Sherman ajs@ajs.com finger ajskey@b5.ajs.com for GPG info. Fingerprint: www.ajs.com/~ajs 6DC1 F67A B9FB 2FBA D04C 619E FC35 5713 2676 CEAF "Do you come from a land downunder, where beer does flow and the men chunder?" -Men at Work