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I hope to see this magic new mystery protocol as something similar to TextSecure, where we have forward secrecy from the OTR protocol.

The current e-mail protocols are far too centralized, which doesn't make sense. Mail is delivered, and after that, it is no longer in possession of USPS. This is unlike how E-mail works (even though it kind of seems like that's what happens).

I hope to see some kind of client being required to run on my computer to decrypt e-mails at rest and receive e-mails that are delivered to me from the central server.




The protocol is based on SCIMP[0] which supports forward secrecy.

[0]: https://silentcircle.com/web/scimp-protocol/


Aha, very good find. Okay then I am pleased.




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