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PGP is entirely useless if you wish to hide metadata about origin, destination, precise timestamps, etc. Use cases exist in which you need to communicate secur
by vox_mollis 10y ago
PGP is entirely useless if you wish to hide metadata about origin, destination, precise timestamps, etc.
Use cases exist in which you need to communicate securely and authenticated, but can NOT leak the above.
Some combination of Pond( message inboxes, timestamp randomization ) and Ricochet( authentication, origin/destination obfuscation ) is sorely needed.
- stephenr 10y ago> if you wish to hide metadata about origin, destination, precise timestamps Sounds like email in general is not the transmission medium you want then.
- wccrawford 10y agoBut by that same token, it doesn't appear that this is actually "email" either. It's sending messages via the internet, securely, using a custom client. If you send to someone without their client, they end up with a link (via actual email) to the website and have to use a password to view it. I think we're at a point where any long messages sent via the internet are going to be called "email" regardless of the actual transmission process. Especially if they aren't meant to be some kind of real-time chat system, as that is usually called "instant messaging".
- stephenr 10y agoFirst off: they called it email, not me. > Tutanota is the end-to-end encrypted mail client that enables you to communicate securely with anyone. Secondly: no. Twitter dm's are unlimited in length, and no one calls it email. Web based conversational systems offer long form messages, and people don't call them email. Email is email, other things are other things. Something can be "email like" and not be email, and if explained that way even the most novice of users can understand that there is a difference, even if they themselves don't specifically understand what the difference is.
- paulryanrogers 10y agoThere is DarkMail