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litchralee@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoThis 100%. It is well-advised to consider what your security/privacy objectives are, since encryption-at-rest is different than guarding against eavesdropping when sending outbound mail. What threat model you use will define what is or isn’t acceptable.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
Yep.
Rather than try to single-handedly re-engineer an old protocol to be secure, I just use it for stuff where security isn’t a big deal. Including messages with links to secure resources (and send credentials via a separate system).
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Agreed. Email has its uses – ubiquity, mostly “Just Works” ™, most people know how to use it – and while I might send an encrypted PDF along with a plaintext email, I’m more inclined to suggest that my recipients adopt Signal and get all the benefits of e2ee. EFF even has a guide for it: ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal