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Email does work fine. We have a similar solution for encryption: PGP. If you do the encryption yourself instead of relying on your email client to handle it,
by JasonFruit 9y ago
Email does work fine. We have a similar solution for encryption: PGP. If you do the encryption yourself instead of relying on your email client to handle it, it works fine. Type your text, encrypt it, then put it in an email; get a response, decrypt it, and read it — it's easy, and it works. People who say PGP is too hard to use are usually relying on a plugin for their email client, or some other unreliable, "encryption magic" tool that tries to hide how PGP works behind an incompatible abstraction.
Simple tools that do one thing well are almost always best.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoThat is absolutely not the way to get people to use it. Very few people can be bothered to muck about with PGP manually. The few geeks who want it or need it are already doing that. What we need is a way to make E2E encryption easy and straightforward, like Signal or Wire, where it's easy, automatic and default enabled.
- JasonFruit 9y agoDid I say that was the way to get people to use it? No. I said it's the way to make it work. I want it to work when people need it, not to get more people to encrypt their shopping lists.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoThe more people encrypt their everyday communication, the easier it is for your confidential emails to hide in the noise.
- rakoo 9y agoThat's what autocrypt (https://autocrypt.org/ https://autocrypt.org/) is going to solve. Automatic opportunistic encryption using existing standards.