Re: Purchases

[Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles () elpauer org>]

On Sunday 16 July 2006 17:13, Dave Aitel wrote:

> You know what would be a good purchase by Microsoft? PGP. There's
> really no easier way to do email encryption. I think the genius is
> that it's P2P rather than set up by some corporate IT center. MS
> should build it into their solutions so everyone can use it - and as a
> side benefit, it'd cripple the spammers.

Assuming that purchase would take effect, I would expect a poor execution (in 
the name of ease of use, of course). 

Then, a few days after this feature be added to Outlook, a flurry of private 
keys would flood the Internet. 

Ultimately, the security feeling people have thanks to the use of public key 
encryption would dilute. Microsoft would have destroyed public key 
encryption. As a side effect, people would no longer trust SSL, HTTPS, TLS or 
anything that remembers to "encryption" or "cipher" and this would the the 
worst disaster I can imagine for e-commerce after the dotcom crash.

"Public key encryption is dead, long live to public key encryption" would we 
cry.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to the amount of work, I usually need 10 days to answer)

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