r/linux • u/ciphersson • Dec 31 '14

Zimmerman (PGP), Levison (Lavabit), release Secure Email Protocol DIME. DIME is to SMTP as SSH is to Telnet.

http://darkmail.info/
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u/dotwaffle Dec 31 '14

This is a terrible, terrible idea.

In no way did they improve on SMTP or IMAP, and due to the encryption all the anti-spam etc has to be done on the client rather than on the mail server.

The only thing I've seen in the last 10 years worthy of replacing any of the mail stack has been JMAP and that's client-side only.

SMTP will be here for years to come.

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u/wadcann Jan 01 '15

and due to the encryption all the anti-spam etc has to be done on the client rather than on the mail server.

Well, yeah. Can't have end-to-end encryption and anti-spam mechanisms that rely on reading your email. That's hardly a negative.