Google’s new end-to-end key distribution proposal
‘For End-To-End, our current approach to key distribution, is to use a model similar to Certificate Transparency, and use the email messages themselves as a gossip protocol, which allow the users themselves to keep the centralized authorities honest. This approach allows users to not have to know about keys, but at the same time, be able to make sure that the servers involved aren’t doing anything malicious behind the users’ back.’
(tags: end-to-end encryption google security email crypto key-distribution)
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