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Revising the Internet Email Infrastructure

Posted by michael on from the starting-over dept.

Lauren Weinstein writes "People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR) today released a white paper aimed at starting discussion and work to fundamentally revamp Internet e-mail systems to control spam, forgeries, and a range of other problems, while empowering e-mail users rather than ISPs." Excellent start.

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  1. PGP by Richardsonke1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Until this comes out, PGP is a great way to keep your email private and secure. It also deals with forged headers using email signing. MIT has a great client here

    --
    "Men lie."
    "Yeah, about sleeping with other women, but never about bioluminescent plankton."
    -Dan Brown
    1. Re:PGP by rtnz · · Score: 5, Informative

      I would suggest GnuPG, free as in free.

      GnuPG