Silicon.com: Snooping Bill drives first ISP abroad

[Ian BROWN]

> My immediate jump-to conclusion would be that they would supply their
>users with SSL-enabled clients, pre-loaded to recognise/expect/require a 128
>bit SSL key on the irish-hosted mailservers. GreenNet could then just hold
>their hands up, point to the large volume of non-recoverable encrypted
>traffic, and say "nothing we can do squire".

Netscape 4, for example, already has an option to run SSL to a mail server. It 
would be almost trivial to add the same option to your link with your Web 
proxy. So GreenNet/Poptel/any other sensible ISP could run mail servers and 
Web proxies in Ireland/Germany/any other Gladman-approved (TM) crypto-friendly 
country ;) and simply have their customers connect to them using SSL links. Thiswould cover at least 95% of most people's Internet traffic.

Conveniently, sendmail 8.12 and squid (Web cache/proxy) support SSL links
at the server side already.

Ian :)