It's amazing how similar the apps are, and yet LTunes still manages to look pants in comparison to iTunes. All this despite having almost exactly the same set of controls on the screen. There's more to this design business than you think.
I suspect what happens is that when a 'protected' message is sent, M$ encrypt the document and upload the key that was used to protect that document to a central server (hence the need for a Passport) along with the details of the people that the message was sent to.
When the recipients want to read the message, they connect to the central server (using their Passport) and the server sends them the key.
The document probably includes the IP/name of the server to connect to as an unencrypted field so that large Corporate clients can manage there own security (with the help of more expensive software from M$).
The only other option, is that the key is just embedded in the client software, but that really sucks. So my guess is that you'll need to have a network connection to read the mail.
Still the fundamental flaw with the system is that the client MUST be provided with the key at some point (since the documents are never sent to M$). Hence, it must be possible to write software which just connects to the server, authenticates using the users Passport, gets the key and then just ignores the access controls.
Copyright. The correct form of intellectual property management.
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Software patents are evil.
If software patents had existed 20 years ago, the concept of the spreadsheet would have patented, the concept of a word processor would have been patented, the concept of a database would have been patented.
Software patents do not encourage creativity. Software patents do not encourage the sharing of novel ideas. Software patents stiffle comptetion. Software patents make work for lawyers. Software patents will kill this industry.
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It's amazing how similar the apps are, and yet LTunes still manages to look pants in comparison to iTunes. All this despite having almost exactly the same set of controls on the screen. There's more to this design business than you think.
When the recipients want to read the message, they connect to the central server (using their Passport) and the server sends them the key.
The document probably includes the IP/name of the server to connect to as an unencrypted field so that large Corporate clients can manage there own security (with the help of more expensive software from M$).
The only other option, is that the key is just embedded in the client software, but that really sucks. So my guess is that you'll need to have a network connection to read the mail.
Still the fundamental flaw with the system is that the client MUST be provided with the key at some point (since the documents are never sent to M$). Hence, it must be possible to write software which just connects to the server, authenticates using the users Passport, gets the key and then just ignores the access controls.
Its not a problem in OpenSSL, the problem is in the way Konquerer uses it (or fails to in this case).
Copyright. The correct form of intellectual property management.
Prepare for rant:
Software patents are evil.
If software patents had existed 20 years ago, the concept of the spreadsheet would have patented, the concept of a word processor would have been patented, the concept of a database would have been patented.
Software patents do not encourage creativity.
Software patents do not encourage the sharing of novel ideas.
Software patents stiffle comptetion.
Software patents make work for lawyers.
Software patents will kill this industry.