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I'm not sure of the relevance of the protocol IF the service remains store-and-forward.

Silent Circle and Lavabit seem to think it's better not to use email at all. An open Skype-like system is probably pretty good. Keys are ephemeral, and transferring encrypted files in audio-video sessions makes it hard to MITM.

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Email is pretty bad, but its not going anywhere so we should try to fix it.

The service would remain store-and-forward but the content would be encrypted throughout, something which is not currently possible without both parties knowing how to setup and use PGP.

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