[Freedombox-discuss] Email Encryption Basics

[Russell Edwards]

On 17/11/12 01:22, Michael Rogers wrote:
> In the real world it's not possible to run a mail server on a home 
> broadband connection,

Could have fooled me..!

Works fine for me.

My $0.02 is don't bite off more than we can chew. Get people's primary 
data storage off "The Cloud" first. Then worry about MITM.

Email is the easiest thing to get off the cloud. Social networking is 
the bigger problem - probably more personal info, certainly much greater 
interlinkage, and so far as I have seen NO truly decentralised viable 
alternative in development. (No - Diaspora, Friendica and Friendica Red 
are not inherently decentralised-nor is StatusNet)  The conception of 
FBX as a "server" - albeit supposedly a personal server - is a little 
concerning in this regard. Any server software designed to host multiple 
users has nothing major in its way from becoming the next 
ultraconvenient ultracentralised Facebook. Perhaps a truly peer-to-peer 
architecture is the only way to prevent this.

Russell