On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 09:58:51AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Hello, are the developers of OpenSMTPD following the DIME project, if so, > what are your thoughts about DIME's features? Will OpenSMTPD ever support the > features that DIME is attempting to implement? > > Forum Link: https://darkmail.info/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=106 > > Defcon Presentation on DIME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWzvXaxR6us > > Specification: > https://darkmail.info/downloads/dark-internet-mail-environment-december-2014.pdf > > Code: https://github.com/lavabit >
I've looked at it a bit but: 1- we currently still lack features people expect from a MTA so I think focusing on experimental drafts before filling this gap is not going to be really useful to our users. 2- I just had a quick look at the specification of DIME a couple times, so I'm not really qualified to make an informed comment, however the specification looked a bit complex and I saw a few things which made me wonder why they would even be in that specification (ie: why does "crypto-currency" even appear in the spec ?). 3- There are things we can do at the ESMTP level which would bring some security to all users of nodes supporting the extension while having backward compatibility for nodes not supporting it. If I can spend a bit of time working on experimental stuff, I'd rather work there and see how DIME evolves first. Now, if someone wanted to work on making OpenSMTPD DIME compliant I see no objection as long as it doesn't introduce code bloat because we're a SMTP server, not a DIME server ;-) -- Gilles Chehade https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected]
