> STARTTLS is not an end-to-end encryption system. [...] But for various reasons it’s hard to deploy end-to-end email encryption, and we’ve spent decades trying

> STARTTLS is not an end-to-end encryption system. [...] But for various reasons it’s hard to deploy end-to-end email encryption, and we’ve spent decades trying. Also, STARTTLS works just fine with end-to-end encryption. > Please indulge me: I think a small rant is appropriate here. There are some security specialists who think that only the perfect is acceptable. Nonsense! Requiring perfection is crazy. [...] For almost all users, email encryption with STARTTLS is a major improvement over what they had before. Let’s keep working to deploy even better systems, but let’s take partial victories where we can get them.