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I applause ProtonMail services and initiatives, it can only be good for us. However why did they develop anything specific? SMTP / IMAP already support secure
by antpls 7y ago
I applause ProtonMail services and initiatives, it can only be good for us.
However why did they develop anything specific? SMTP / IMAP already support secure connection (i believe). Or it could be encapsulated in a secure lower transport protocol.
Also I thought there were tons of GPG/PGP extensions for email clients already to read encrypted emails
- kube-system 7y agoIMAP, et al, require mail to be unencrypted on the server side; they are only encrypted in-transit.
- antpls 7y agoWhich is why Protonmail uses GPG/PGP for the encrypted ones, I believe. So there should be no reason that we cannot use any mail client with GPG/PGP support.
- kube-system 7y agoTheir service does stuff beyond the basic functions of PGP. That is handled by the bridge, and wouldn't be handled by your favorite flavor of email client and PGP plugin. One example: if you message another ProtonMail user, all of the PGP functionality is handled automatically. I don't think this would be possible with any other solution.