I totally agree that email, and messaging in general, would be much better if we solved the identity issue. I don't agree that there is anything particularly br

I totally agree that email, and messaging in general, would be much better if we solved the identity issue. I don't agree that there is anything particularly broken about the two existing standards to do this. The last thing we need is another standard for signing email. The root problem is that we treat anonymous email (unsigned) the same as email from people we know (signed by such a person). Treating anonymous email with normal suspicion pretty much solves the problems with email ... as pointed out in the article. I think there is a tendency to want to solve a technical problem, even when no such problem exists. This will ultimately have to be solved at the people level.