Re: [Asrg] A Technique for Universal Authentication

[John Levine <asrg at johnlevine.com>]

>> >> Recognizing mail from known correspondents is a very thoroughly solved
>> >> problem.
>>
>> >I agree, yet my system is designed to recognize mail from unknown
>> sources.

It's the same problem -- the mail that's not from known correspondents is
from unknown sources.

>I don't think that S/MIME is able to reproduce these functions.

S/MIME recognizes the known corrspondents.  You've added on a C/R
layer for everyone else.  See the ASRG archives for lengthy
discussions of all the reasons that C/R is a bad idea.

R's,
John

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