Comment on On email privacy: can I store my own email and relay them through an email provider?

• InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The emails are unencrypted, emails in transit are in transit between the e-mail servers and relays and use secure tls channels.
  They are only encrypted from your phone/notebook/browser to the server, then when send they will be encrypted till the next server.

  Every server/relay first decrypts everything send to it, because it has to due to the TLS terminating at each server.

  See also your source:

  Transport Encryption: This form of encryption is used to secure your emails while they are transmitted over the internet. Most of today’s email services, including Gmail, employ transport layer security (TLS) to protect emails in transit. While it encrypts emails between servers, it doesn’t protect the content once it reaches the recipient’s inbox.^1^

  In practical terms, Your e-mail server, your e-mail servers relay (if it has any) and your recipients relay server/server can all read your email unless

  End-to-End Encryption (E2EE): E2EE takes encryption a step further. It ensures that only the sender and the recipient can decrypt and read the emails. Even the email service provider cannot access the contents of the email. E2EE is typically achieved through third-party encryption tools or services.^1^

  Which takes active effort from both the sender and the recipient to make work - it’s almost only possible with people you know and little else.

  ^1^ umatechnology.org/gmails-new-encryption-can-make-…

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• suzune@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  TLS is a transport encryption. PGP is content encryption. The latter one is what is most important, even if almost no one uses it.

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