Re: Transitive trust and MLM

[Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>]

On Tue, 7 May 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:

> Some of the solution to this problem may come from the answer to the
> question, "What am I trusting the receiver with?"  I can see a number of
> possibilities:
> 
> (1) I just want an envelope so casual eavesdroppers can't read the mail. 
> Given the people Rich Graves has been dealing with, I see this as a
> powerful reason to encrypt all private email, just as you might send all
> private postal mail in envelopes rather than on postcards.

Oh, those WhoWhere? guys are just a bunch of pussycats.

The fact that you're sending postcards is only a problem if you don't want
them to be read. It's more the email I receive that I worry about, so all 
my friends use the address rich@alpha.c2.org now.

You should only worry about men in the middle when you're playing
volleyball. The endpoints are usually far more vulnerable.

-rich
 http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~llurch/