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It's too late to fix email. Neither using GPG (as the article points out) nor anything else. Ubiquitous, opportunistic transport encryption is the best it'll g
by lima 10y ago
It's too late to fix email. Neither using GPG (as the article points out) nor anything else.
Ubiquitous, opportunistic transport encryption is the best it'll get, and we're pretty close to that.
The future of secure communication isn't email, it's incompatible, centralized silos of low-latency protocols with forward secrecy. Think WhatsApp or Signal.
- dijit 10y agoI hate this, federated systems feel so much better for controlling your own security, your own policy.. everything. Third parties should be avoided imho, it's like nobody has ever suffered vendor lock-in these days.
- EmilStenstrom 10y agoI don't agree, people have declared the death of e-mail for many many years now, it's not going anywhere. It's definitely not to late to fix it.
- stefs 10y agonot death of all email - i think lima talks about that it's too late for per-default end-to-end encrypted email. encrypted transport to/from the server is relatively easy, but client-to-client? email wasn't really built that way and now the barrier of entry for broad adoption is too high.
- xorcist 10y ago"The future is [whatever I see in front of me today]!" It's a very common statement, whether we recognize it or not. It may be true in the short term, but it's unlikely in the long term.