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>Of course it would be trivial for a hop in the delivery path to subvert that and remove the request, and all hops in delivery would still have message content
by jolux 6y ago
>Of course it would be trivial for a hop in the delivery path to subvert that and remove the request, and all hops in delivery would still have message content access; but if people like it, a large majority of servers might support it in 5-10 years.
You're describing TLS, and this is already happening.
- toast0 6y agoNot just TLS, but a way to say, while composing a message, if it's can not be delivered via TLS with a valid certiticate, then don't deliver it. Which apparently already exists as REQUIRETLS https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8689.html https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8689.html Published November 2019. I didn't see any data on support, and hadn't heard of it before looking just now.