I wonder how badly the security of Pond would break if one were to build a pond-email gateway of some sort so that you could use regular imap/smtp clients (and maybe tor).
Adam Langley's Pond: Secure Async Messaging
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Re: Adam Langley's Pond: Secure Async Messaging
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
can anyone point to a link that explains X.509 s shortcomings? I'd really like to read up on that but can't find any sane info.
Haha consider the possibility that some of the insane ranting you hear about x.509 is actually balanced and accurate criticism :-)
hehe, so true.
Re: Adam Langley's Pond: Secure Async Messaging
#43> "Pond seeks to prevent leaking traffic information against everyone except a global passive attacker." My favorite line in the article. It's a nice nod to the fact that this Achilles heel is an issue that he is aware of / takes seriously.
Contrasted with the "forward": |Note: recent events have lead to these topics being in the news quite often in recent weeks. However, Pond is not a reaction to those events - it was started nearly a year ago. Traffic information, of course, isn't the whole conversation, so his wit is appreciated to make light air of the situation, but at the same time he's quite serious about this little project. I'm impressed that i…
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