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Seems trivial enough to do client-side on modern hardware, especially if you exclude attachments.
by TillE 3y ago
Seems trivial enough to do client-side on modern hardware, especially if you exclude attachments.
- raggi 3y agoWithout producing confirmation side channels and so on? Doesn’t seem that trivial- at least it needs more thought than assumption of simplicity
- amilich 3y agoWe do it in a fairly straightforward manner right now. Check out the blog I linked to above - generate an in-memory index, end-to-end encrypt it, and store it browser storage. It's only decrypted in memory.
- throwaway1566 3y agoTo do this you would have to download all emails on all devices all the time to index them. Kind of makes the whole point of a cloud based email moot, if everything is on my device anyway, and logging in and out resets it all - might as well use an email client app.