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Because 99.9999999% of emails are not encrypted before being sent.
by thinkmassive 5y ago
Because 99.9999999% of emails are not encrypted before being sent.
- shockeychap 5y agoTrue. But I’m not talking about end-to-end between sender and receiver. I’m just talking about using public key encryption to encrypt received contents with one key and decrypt with another. There are a lot of technical challenges - particularly with maintaining compatibility with email clients - but it can be done. The inability of MTAs to negotiate and utilize any kind of SSL-style encryption when relaying messages is also a gross travesty in the year 2021.
- thinkmassive 5y agoAccording to Google, 82% of outbound email to other providers, and 93% of inbound from other providers, is encrypted in transit. https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview