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It would be great if more email clients had encryption built in, and encrypted emails to people with known public keys. Barring that, perhaps something like a
by Sapient 15y ago
It would be great if more email clients had encryption built in, and encrypted emails to people with known public keys.
Barring that, perhaps something like a peer to peer network where messages are automatically encrypted and addressed to a public key could work. Those emails could then float around the p2p network until a client with that public key joined, and downloaded that message, decrypting it with their private key obviously.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoUnfortunately, most people don't care enough about encryption to put in effort using it. I'd love it if when people sent me unencrypted email, their mail server noticed that I have a published PGP key, and encrypted the email with it before passing it on. EDIT: Also, as for your P2P idea, IIRC there are Usenet groups where people post PGP encrypted messages for the intended recipient to pick up.
- drdaeman 15y ago> more email clients had encryption built in I believe every single relatively popular client supports S/MIME out of box, and a lot of them support PGP/GPG. Most casual users just don't know/care enough about their privacy up to the moment it is severely violated..
- Sapient 15y agoYou are probably right regarding email clients, I haven't actually used one since I switched to Gmail and Google Apps. I do count services like Gmail as email clients though, but I don't think any of them have S/MIME or PGP/GPG support out the box. Last time I tried sending a GPG encrypted email through Gmail on windows, there was no simple way of doing it.
- drdaeman 15y agoSuch support would require either client-side browser extension to do the crypto or giving your private key to webmail provider. I doubt there are a lot of people that would want to encrypt their messages, but still trust someone other with their keys.