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Friday, July 28, 2006
mailvault episode 2: return of the delayed e-mails
Well the title says it all, all my test messages sent to the MailVault account came back. I did receive the usual 'delay' message initially and eventually the 'failed delivery' ones. Unfortunately I do not think I will recommend MailVault to anyone - I've discussed the risks of hosting your keyring on someone else's servers - just yet because it is not an e-mailing service just yet. More like sending postcards with no return address.

Unfortunately it is near-impossible to offer encrypted webmail without trying to use this method of hosting the keys. Webmail should be completely mobile and accessible to people with no strings attached; tying them to having to bring their key with them definitely sucks and would not actually make the service remarkable through their encryption schemes. Even storing your private key on a USB stick and bringing that with you is not a solution because, well, once it gets uploaded and used, who's to say how long the server 'cached' copy will stay there?

You need secure, tested and tried applications to use on the local machine. Nothing else is really worth your time. There are quite a few solutions that you can carry around on a decently-sized USB stick in order to not be tied to a particular computer.


7/28/2006 09:16:00 a.m. || 
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