Re: e2e

[SM <sm at resistor.net>]

At 02:51 17-08-2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> So what you're saying is that any mail server should be able to
> source messages from any mail user using any email address in any
> domain.

That's what created the ubiquity of email.

> Sorry, that's not a reasonable desire in my opinion. If you find your
> path to your home mail server blocked, find yourself better
> connectivity rather than opening a gaping hole in the architecture.

Finding better connectivirrow and it may turn into an expensive communication medium for them.

> message and not the transport.  If the primary concern is
> communications between a financial institution with which the
> user already has an account (or equivalent relationship) and
> that user, we don't even have the usual PKI problems: one can
> deliver a sender key or cert out of band, validate it, and be
> finished.

There are ways to validate the sender the first time you establish a 
contact.  Once that is done, you can use it to validate future 
communication you receive from that correspondent.

Regards,
-sm 


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