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It was dead the moment they put it on Github. Their blog post[1] claimed: > E2EMail is not a Google product, it’s now a fully community-driven open source pr
by politelemon 8y ago
It was dead the moment they put it on Github. Their blog post[1] claimed:
> E2EMail is not a Google product, it’s now a fully community-driven open source project, to which passionate security engineers from across the industry have already contributed.
But looking at the commit history[2] makes it clear that was not the case at all.
Although this post is by Tutanota (and I can't tell if Tutanota supports PGP), Protonmail does support PGP emails.
1: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/e2email-research-project-has-left-nest_24.html https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/e2email-research-pro...
2: https://github.com/e2email-org/e2email/commits/master https://github.com/e2email-org/e2email/commits/master
- coldtea 8y agoAKA "death by open sourcing it", the hideous cousin to the equally awful "Death by acquisition" (aka "We will continue working on this now that we've been acquired").
- bad_user 8y agoAll email services selling encrypted email as a service are snake oil in my opinion. You won't gain anything more than when using GPG by yourself, except you're now trusting a third-party app to do it for you, using a non-standard adapter for allowing IMAP / SMTP apps to still work while at the same time obscuring the fact that end-to-end encryption will only happen when the recipients support it as well, which is at most 1% of all recipients you're communicating with.