Matthew Green, associate professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University in the US, wants Google and other email providers to make it possible for people to deny they've written old email messages.
He has asked the Gmail goliath, as the largest commercial email service, to rotate its Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) encryption keys periodically and to publish old keys to reduce the incentive for hackers to steal and leak email messages.
In so doing, he's advocating for a "right to be forgotten" for aged email, or more precisely for the ability to plausibly deny authorship of messages published without permission, after a certain period of time.
In an online post published earlier this week, Green argues that DKIM has become "a monster."
As he explains, email service ..
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