Re: SPAM-less email (was If anybody wants to make something in Ada butdo not know what)

[rd <nospam@spam.no>]

Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> 
> > To my
> > mind, the biggest problem communication schemes face is not being
> > mainstream.  It's already not a difficult matter to encrypt emails
> > with PGP, but I still don't get encrypted emails, and I don't send them
> > myself (often).
> 
> The problem with OpenPGP is that you do not know whether people do
> prefer encrypted emails or not. I do favor them, but I know people
> who want to use OpenPGP only when they need to, because it adds
> some complexity into their email system.

Which is why I'm so hyped up over a new email system that uses strong
public key encryption by default.  The complexity added is already fairly
low.  If it were built into the protocol, then the complexity would be
almost nothing.  My parents are new computer users, and I'm sure they
could use an email program with the encryption, even if they don't
understand the mathematical nuances behind the encryption.  They already
have to enter a username and passphrase to check their email anyway.

The inroad to getting this thing designed and implemented is how it
stops spam.  That alone is enough to get a new encrypted email system
in widespread use, and if it happens to make encrypted email the norm,
then so much the better.