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if you're doing this on your own hardware, why not just encrypt your entire disk? (or just a single partition, and give imap access to that alone through unix p
by andrewcooke 13y ago
if you're doing this on your own hardware, why not just encrypt your entire disk? (or just a single partition, and give imap access to that alone through unix perms or, if you want to go further, apparmor etc).
- vader1 13y agoFirstly because I'm looking to create a solution that can be hosted centrally: the average email user is simply never going to setup and host their own mailserver and setup the encryption. Secondly: simply using a regular encrypted partition for both SMTP and IMAP access means that partition has to be mounted permanently, otherwise new incoming mails couldn't be delivered. This means if a hacker were to gain access to the system, or if a party would force the server operators to give them access to the servers, all emails would be instantly compromised.