Does it really make any sense to ask the question of a user, "Would
you rather have privacy than authentication?" when one is perhaps not
good without the other? Most folks probably don't "want" TCP
checksums, sequence numbers, and windows to send data over their SMTP
connection, yet they are tools to get the job at hand done.
It is important to not give someone a false sense of security because
something is "encrypted". If you are going to build a tool, it is
upon the designers and implementors of the tool to build it in a
responsible way. "Market surveys" don't replace engineering.
Perhaps you don't like the choice of the name of the working group or
the lable put on the standard; if this is confusing to your or your
customers, you're certainly able to name your product "Whizzy-Mail!"
to communicate the impression that you like.
And I didn't reply to your survey, either, seeing little to no benefit
for me. I had figured you for yet another bogon vendor coming along
to take advantage of the expertise of this group without contributing
something. Maybe I was wrong in my assumption?
Louis Mamakos
University of Maryland