Building Email Standards Secure & Together

Mikko Linnamäki - Dovecot Co-FounderNeil Cook - Chief Security Architect, Open-XchangeLondon, January 28, 2016

The year was 1829...

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“Stourbridge Lion“ 1st steam locomotive in USA (built in England)

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New Technology changed the world• Transport made the world

smaller

• Due to railroad, the US time zones were created in the 1880s

• People took credit to invest in railroad bonds

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J.P. Morgan Investor: Facebook, Google

(on-going)Investor US railways1830’s – 1900’s

No track width standardsWithout any desire to be open, railroad companies did not talk to each other and therefore the track width was not standardized.

This problem still exists today!

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Track Gauges of the World (still)

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A World without standards

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Proprietary Rail Forms

End of 1915, most US railroad companies went bankrupt…

In 1917, the railroads were nationalized across the US.

Telecommunications, networks

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History repeating Itself

In 1860, travel between NYC and Sacramento took 6 months and was extremely dangerous

In the 1990’s, an email of 1MB could take 60 minutes (and was

open for anyone to intercept)

Email transport is not secure today• Telco's and ISP’s allow

surveillance of their customers

• Contracts, corporate presentations & IP, communications with doctors, lawyers, insurance, banks…

• EVERYTHING!• National efforts have been

started in Germany & France to improve Email security.

Why are the big 3 not fixing this?

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We need to fix this

• Trusted suppliers, together with the telco and ISP industry

• Develop the quality level, standards and expectation to secure digital communication and personal data

• And protect your customers!

TEST R U S T E D E M A I L S E R V I C E S

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2.9M Dovecot Servers

Let’s make all communication between each other secure.

TES open working groupAn openBIT project with a simple mission:

Make email secure on transit and in-rest (storage), by providing Open Source Software and Solutions to any ISP and Telco.

Open for everyone to join!

CIRCLEOF

TRUST

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