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Is there an open-source, decentralized service that can be used for encrypted email? Something like that could be much more difficult to compromise.
by biotech 12y ago
Is there an open-source, decentralized service that can be used for encrypted email? Something like that could be much more difficult to compromise.
- jordigh 12y agoBitcoin is one such thing. Well, not the bitcoin protocol directly, but the basic idea of a block chain can be used for many interesting things, such as decentralised encrypted communication.
- aliakbarkhan 12y agoWhy trust it to a service? Encrypt it yourself.
- cortesoft 12y agoYou will need your recipients to also decrypt it themselves, then. And handle your own key-exchanging. Not trivial, if you want to be able to email lots of people.
- ixwt 12y agoLike Bitmessage? https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page
- nhayden 12y agoBitmessage is a beautiful concept but I've read many people having concerns over several aspects of how secure it really is. I hope the entire web one day works on a similar model.
- rakoo 12y agoAny email provider (even yourself !) can be used with GPG to encrypt the content of your emails and have good privacy. Try Thunderbird with Enigmail. This is notoriously known for not encrypting metadata, though, which is impossible because this very metadata is used to make email actually work.