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The search for "best encrypted email host" would be irrelevant with wide adoption of PGP (www.openpgp.org)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/degoogle@europe.pub
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There are dozens of options across all platforms to seamlessly integrate PGP email signing and encryption.

I use Gnome's key manager with evolution and it's ridiculously simple...

It's been like 30 years -- what's holding us all back?

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[–] 10 points 9 months ago

We used to have key servers, key signature gatherings and groups in different regions, etc.

People just didn't want to do it. It's been around since the early 90s and has languished cause it's hard to use.

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    [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Regarding PGP/GPG I've read those 2 articles and it seems, we should focus on alternatives

    https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem

    https://soatok.blog/2024/11/15/what-to-use-instead-of-pgp/

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, this is great -- thanks!

    I admit to having a back of mind feeling like I should be using PGP all this time (since Slackers was released) and now I can finally move on, and ignore this particular antique tool.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I went down this rabbit hole (PGP/PKI) a few months ago and more or less agree with the blogs that @naeap posted.

    BUT do not discount the importance that PKI has played to our overall security infrastructure. It's just that PGP is an absolute shitshow when it comes to communication in today's day and age.

    I'd love something that works like Signal (e.g. forward security, identifiable but also deniable) but also in email-like format. I feel like Matrix comes closest in that you can have multiple devices that belong to you that can decrypt full messages but it requires a central server, which isn't ideal. E2EE leaves the possibility that you can lose your device (and thus your messages) but not having it leaves the possibility of eavesdropping.

    I don't have a good email solution. So right now I'm just using Signal for most secure communications.

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    [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    ...Said me in the mid 1990s.

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