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Because when you search through your email, it has to be already decrypted, so why bother? On the other hand, I cryptographically sign all of my email, so thos
by mjgoins 18y ago
Because when you search through your email, it has to be already decrypted, so why bother?
On the other hand, I cryptographically sign all of my email, so those who use the web of trust have a reasonable assurance it came from me.
- Niten 18y ago> Because when you search through your email, it has to be already decrypted, so why bother? Of course, there's a huge difference between "decrypted on my hard drive" and "decrypted as it passes through N untrusted mail servers". Heck, it doesn't even have to be decrypted on your hard drive in order to be searchable; just use dm-crypt, or TrueCrypt, or PGP, or any of the myriad other full-disk encryption options.