If we're being serious, then then another term used is "hop-to-hop encryption", as in [0]: "Unlike PGP and S/MIME, STARTTLS provides hop-to-hop encryption (TLS

If we're being serious, then then another term used is "hop-to-hop encryption", as in [0]: "Unlike PGP and S/MIME, STARTTLS provides hop-to-hop encryption (TLS for email), not end-to-end." [0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/technical-deep-dive-starttls-everywhere https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/technical-deep-dive-st...