Question

How does traditional snail-mail deal with such issues? Are there any issues that does not have a snail-
mail equivalence? Concerning these issues, what is it about e-mail that make it differ from snail-mail?
(If you cannot think of anything, you can also start by first identifying the difference between e-mail
and snailmail, and then go on to say how each factors can raise new issues that were not applicable to
snail-mails)

Answer 1

Hey, let's start with the main differences between the e-mail and snail-mail.

Difference between Snail-mail and e-mail:

	Snail-mail	Email
Definition	Here you use conventional delivery services to deliver the mail physically.	Electronic mail refers to sending of a mail through the electronic medium by a network.
Speed	Obviously it is slower.	It is faster then Snail-mail.
Risks	Here your mails can be damaged or can be misplaced by the delivery agent.	Here we have a danger of hackers that hackers can see our sensitive data.
Physical feel	Here Snail-mail has an upper hand as sender can write in his own words which gives the physical touch.	e-mail lacks in the physics feel as we send the mail digitally.
Advantages	1. anyone can read the mail as the reader doesn't need to be computer literate. 2. A physical touch too.	1. emails are less expensive. 2. we can organize the mail well can send any number of people to many peoples.

Now let's talk about the issues that we face in email related to confidentiality and authentication and then we will see how snail mail can deal with such issues.

Easy Interception:

Email: This is the main issue with the emails as emails can easily be intercepted i.e., the information can easily be exposed to unwanted peoples.

Snail-mail: This is not the case with the snail as there is very fewer chances of interception because we send the mail physically, we use literate and innocent peoples to carry our mail and send to the right person.

Compliance Conflictions:

Email: When we have to send the important financial data or medical details, then every company demands a high level of security which as a small mistake can lead to breach imposed requirements.

Snail-mail: Here we use the Snail-mail approach as send the important financial data encrypted and send through the physical medium as send in any storage device. This will enhance security and increase the company values.

Absent Authentication:

Email: As I read somewhere that one key shouldn't open the whole house so in the email too with the password anyone can see the whole data. this shouldn't happen.

Snail-mail: Here we can use the snail-mail approach and send the specific data to only the particular individual so this thing can help in this.

I hope you understood well and if you have any queries, feel free to comment i will definitely try to resolve it.

Thanks