Re: secure email providers
Ralf Mardorf via Users <[email protected]> Sat, 2 Apr 2022 01:42:32 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.sylpheed.claws.general |
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| Message-ID | <20220402014232.1513d8b3@archlinux> |
PGP is nice to sign checksums and geeks can use it to sign and or encrypt emails, too. When writing emails was ok for most users, it was not ok even to spend 30 seconds to listen how easy PGP is to use, if somebody is willing to set it up on their machine in a not perfect, but comfortable to use way. "Not perfect (not perfectly secure), but comfortable to use" means that they can continue using the mailer as they are used to, because the private key is stored on the computer, not on a special external device. The email client does automatically send encrypted emails in reply to encrypted mails, but does store unencrypted copies of the emails. In my experiences there was absolutely no chance to convince anybody. When I started to explain, they were unwilling to listen. It's way to technically and all the times they experience something so-called "easy" as way to complicated and breaking things. Nowadays, most people are even unwilling to send emails at all. They are in favour of WhatsApp. Since I'm unwilling to use WhatsApp I'm missing a lot, even rotas and other important things that by data protection law are not allowed to be shared this way. Nobody cares! I'm lucky if somebody does accept that I'm not willing to use WhatsApp and if this person is willing to send an email from time to time. I wouldn't dream of asking to use plain text, bottom post, trim etc., let alone to use PGP. Email is close to death. PGP never was alive.