Submitted 1 year ago by horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
You cannot encrypt email End to End.
Incorrect.
…mozilla.org/…/introduction-to-e2e-encryption
It has to be stored in plaintext somewhere.
Yahoo does not offer encrypted email.
It doesn’t need to. support.mozilla.org/…/thunderbird-and-yahoo
holy shit we finally did it. The incorrect horse battery staple
Y’all did it yesterday lol. I’ll keep taking my lumps though.
If this were an attempt to “collect email addresses”, then I would not be asking people to make a new one for the sole purpose of contacting me.
The primary email mentioned in the message is with Tutanota, not Yahoo. This aids in my own compartmentalization by not publicizing my primary email, and many websites are averse to allowing signups with privacy-oriented email services with as Tuta or Proton.
It is I, MidnightMan. I will likely be the one emailing you back.
yahoo has throwaway addresses in the settings btw
what’s with the 1 day old account for this though
The project’s launch is quite recent.
Email is insecure comms, it is required to be stored in plain text. Any keys or cryptographic elements you share over email are already compromised as soon as it’s emailed.
There are a multitude of encrypted ways to communicate. If you are attempting to reach people on lemmy I would suggest setting up a matrix server and element instance much like what was done on db0.
I don’t have skin in this game but Email itself can be clear text all you want. By using pgp with email is very much secure as the text encryption is not transparent you see the encrypted message you encrypted with their public key and need their private key to decrypt the message.
A Matrix server is one of the applications that I’m running, but I don’t let any random Joe into my place of work. Manually PGP’ed messages over email is perfectly viable for first contact.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You are so incorrect it is bordering on misinformation.
Ever heard of SMPTS, POP3S, or IMAPS? All 3 are email encrypted in transit.
You can encrypt at rest with LUKS or Bitlocker. Also you can combine those with a TPM.
horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lemmy.world/comment/15012625
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So your statement of email is not secure is still wrong.