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[ih] email at scale



On 5/14/2012 8:24 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:

> A common view is that good security cannot be easy to use. It might even
> be true.

There is one of the "rugs", in my humble opinion.

The bigger one, in my mind, is that I can not imagine such a system that 
will operate securely and dependably without information about and 
provided by the destination entity with the absolute assurance that the 
destination provided the information, AND THAT the information provided 
is honest, accurate, and timely.

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Requiescas in pace o email           Two identifying characteristics
                                         of System Administrators:
Ex turpi causa non oritur actio      Infallibility, and the ability to
                                         learn from their mistakes.
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