I have lost chat histories more times than I can remember, and I have to be extra diligent about this these days.
I don’t even want to think about pgp when I have to manually take care of this problem. Not because of my own skills, but because I could never make it reliable for my family and friends on their side.
Proton doesn't provide public APIs for retrieving the public GPG keys associated with their users' accounts, nor do they provide a way to send encrypted mail to their users' accounts without using their official apps.
Ergo, Proton is not really working to further the state of cryptography for email, they're only working to compel users to use their proprietary software (and ultimately their paid services).
If services which do automated sending of emails to their subscribers/users have no way to encrypt those emails for its users who are on proton mail, I don't understand how Proton can claim to care about encryption.
Our small company has been encrypting all emails by default with S/MIME for 15-20 years. A company can generate its own certs for free from a company root cert, use a provider like Sectigo for $20/year, or get US Government ECA certs for about $100/year.
You can read encrypted emails on company-managed mobile devices that have Knox chips to secure access to the certificate. We're careful to back up all our old keys so we can always read old emails.
Some drawbacks are:
- Email "search" features only see the subjects, not the contents, of encrypted emails.
- You can't read encrypted emails via web email.
- Few others have S/MIME certs. Most major government contractors seem confused when we ask about encrypting emails with them...
Johnny may not encrypt, but every business really can.
I wish the client stored it decrypted once received.
Why?
https://www.latacora.com/blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypte...
As long as Google, Apple or Microsoft controls your device, all bets are off. You can "encrypt"mails in Outlook but, Microsoft also has your key.
Very hard to parse sentence. The monospace font means the em-dash isnt emmy enough, so I couldn't tell it apart from the hyphen on first, second, and third attempt. I wish people would put spaces around it, and to hell with what the style guide says.
In 1998, you'd probably run PGP.
While GnuPG saw it's first 0.x releases from the end of 1997, 1.0 was only released in 1999 and commercial PGP was still very popular IIRC.
Issue 2: Making it easy to encrypt
Issue 3: Popularizing encryption or getting more people to do it
Poor are those people who are forced to hide their message in encrypted formats,
Well not quite, if you use mutt, it is easy to encrypt emails with gpg. The setup could be a bit hard for new people, but if they have good reading comprehension it is easy.
Thunderbird has its own gpg-like based internal encryption. I really do not like it, I wish they built it on gnupg like the old plugin did.
All you need to do is get your key to the people you want to send encrypted email to and you need to get theirs. There are key servers or you can mail the public key to them.
To me, if on Cell Phones, all bets are off. I would never use email on Cell Phones.