Author Topic: Dark Internet Mail Environment (DIME) (Read 11488 times)

bill · « **on:** December 31, 2014, 04:01:22 AM »

Phil Zimmerman (PGP), Ladar Levison (Lavabit), and team release Secure Email Protocol DIME. Their claim is that DIME is to SMTP as SSH is to Telnet
http://darkmail.info/ (Full specs, sourcecode, etc.)

Brad · « **Reply #1 on:** December 31, 2014, 12:21:05 PM »

Interesting bill. I just found out this week that Silent Circle got out of the email hosting biz, so it is interesting to see what they have been working on.

I think the day is rapidly coming when we are all going to be looking for more secure email solutions.

ergophobe · « **Reply #2 on:** December 31, 2014, 09:10:54 PM »

Never heard of it. Thanks for posting. Interesting. The NSA will cry and moan, but they have brought it upon themselves.

So, by my reckoning of ways to access the web:

- telnet is dead. Most servers will refuse a connection except via SSH - SCP, git, any command line stuff that requires authentication is all secure now on 99% of servers

- unencrpyted FTP is close to dead and after recent exploits, prognosis for future life worsening.

- SPDY or HTTP2 plus free certs and so forth will accelerate the death of the unencrypted web

.... but email has always seemed like the one area where there was so much benefit and so little action.

bill · « **Reply #3 on:** January 16, 2015, 08:47:18 AM »

I find myself using e-mail less and less these days for any personal communication. These days I've been experimenting with secure channels to get messages across. I hope they get this DIME protocol adopted soon. It would be good to have a secure way to communicate that doesn't require the complexity of a public key exchange like PGP.

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