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It sort-of does work with people's existing email (since the public key is just added as an email alias). If you didn't have the public key in the email, you'd
by diafygi 12y ago
It sort-of does work with people's existing email (since the public key is just added as an email alias). If you didn't have the public key in the email, you'd have to have central repo for public keys, which is what this technique is trying to prevent.
Also, this is an unhosted application, so you can just right click and save-as. It still works hosted on your local filesystem (which isn't subject to NSLs).
- hnha 12y agoonly works with hosts that support aliases and I doubt that's many. nice idea though!
- diafygi 12y agoGmail[1], Outlook[2], and Yahoo[3] supposedly support aliases, and everyone who uses Google Apps for their email also support aliases. I've only verified with my Gmail, so can anyone else confirm Outlook and Yahoo? [1] - https://support.google.com/a/answer/33327 https://support.google.com/a/answer/33327 [2] - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook/add-alias-account http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook/add-alias... [3] - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/creating-aliases-sln3240.html https://help.yahoo.com/kb/creating-aliases-sln3240.html
- hnha 12y agobut those are hosts that I would not expect privacy aware people to use!
- diafygi 12y agoHeh, that's kind of the point for this project: making email encryption easy for lay-users.
- Semaphor 12y agoFastmail.fm supports plus addressing as well https://www.fastmail.fm/help/receive/addressing.html https://www.fastmail.fm/help/receive/addressing.html
- diafygi 12y agoDo they have a public compose endpoint? I'd love to add an option for them.
- Semaphor 12y agoThey have https://www.fastmail.fm/mail/compose?u=[someUserHash] https://www.fastmail.fm/mail/compose?u=[someUserHash], but at least when I tried it removing the query string (=> /mail/compose) still worked while logged in.
- tomjen3 12y agoEh what I meant was that I should be able to send a message to any persons email. Using this app requires that the user has used it first.
- diafygi 12y agoIndeed. Unfortunately, that's fundamentally the way public-key crypto works. If you do try to send a message to an email with no public key, it will prompt you to send an invite instead.