Month: August 2009

Email Security

Past upheavals in countries including Iran and Burma have highlighted the difficulty of getting uncensored news into and out of countries with heavily controlled Internet access. But government researcher Sho Ho told a panel at the recent Defcon conference about research on a program that would make it extremely difficult for governments to block citizens from sending or receiving information.

email security

Feed Over Email is essentially a proxy-less RSS feed that can be delivered through Web based mail programs like Gmail. If both the client and mail server can send and receive encrypted email, foreign governments will have trouble using deep packet filtering to block certain keywords.

While research is still beginning and Ho said that funding is still needed, this could be a huge breakthrough in providing email security to bloggers, reformers and average citizens in countries with restrictive or draconian personal privacy restrictions.