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1. How do you discover someone's encrypting key? They give it (the public key) to you or publish it where everyone can find it. You would keep and verify all y
by waynecochran 3y ago
1. How do you discover someone's encrypting key?
They give it (the public key) to you or publish it where everyone can find it. You would keep and verify all your friends, colleagues, businesses, etc email..
These are all solvable problems. Much like voting. Someone does not want these problems solved.
- janosdebugs 3y agoHow do you solve the problem of needing to pass an email address via phone? Happened to me dozens of times over the last year. Also, how do you solve the problem of shared inboxes where employees need to access emails and they may get replaced over time? How do you solve the problem of people just straight up losing or breaking their keys/laptops/phones? I knew people who had a new phone every few months because something happened to it. The average user is very, very far away from being able to use a nearly irreplacible item for communication. And yes, it's irreplacible since there is no rollover mechanism in just publishing the public key.
- pavel_lishin 3y ago> Someone does not want these problems solved. I don't think it's a conspiracy; I think the people who don't want these problems solved are typical email users, for whom the increased security would only increase complexity without solving any actual problems they have with email.
- waynecochran 3y agoAll email users deal with the tyranny of email. They are just used to it. They don’t know how much better it could be.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoI don't think that adding end-to-end encryption would make things meaningfully better for most of the people who use email.
- waynecochran 3y agoDigital signatures would. Makes it real easy to sort your email.
- waynesonfire 3y agoIf proton mail can do it so can everyone else. The ad-tech companies clearly don't want to.