• SMillerNL@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Wouldn’t those two be directly at odds with each other? I would have a hard time describing anything without encryption as “privacy focused”.

    If it’s open source you can generally configure it as insecurely as you want though.

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      9 months ago

      No one encrypts their emails at least in my experiance.

      For example: If you send an email from proton mail to gmail there is no encryption, if you get an email from outside proton mail , it’s unencrypted.

      The reason I don’t want an email with encryption is that ther are no use to me.

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        I think you’re confusing “encrypted in transit” versus “end to end encryption”

        Your email between protonmail and gmail would be encrypted between the servers, but both protonmail and gmail could read your email. OpenPGP makes it so incoming emails are encrypted with your public key, so there’s an extra stage of encryption that only your email client can decipher. OpenPGP therefore has the capacity for end to end encryption

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        No one encrypts their emails, yes. As a protonmail user I don’t do it either, because proton’s software does that automatically for me.

        With the email system, end to end encryption is only beneficial to you, it doesn’t have a disadvantage for you. It’s totally transparent, meaning that it works without affecting how you do things normally.

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    End-to-end encryption with email only works if you have the public key of the receiver. If the receiver doesn’t have a key or you don’t know it then your mail cannot be encrypted. This is independent from the email provider.

    This is also the case for private chat apps like Signal. But they still work seamlessly because the key exchange is built into the protocol. The email protocols are too old and end-to-end encryption never really caught on outside of privacy focused users.

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    When you say encryption what do you mean, the emails sent from the account being encrypted or a janky http site?

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        I think for most privacy emails the end to end encryption is optional, I use tuta and I mostly turn it off.

        Are you looking for an email provider without this feature and can I ask why?

        Or are you just asking?

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    mailbox.org doesn’t seem to enable end to end encryption by default. They are privacy focussed (no advertising), and use open source software.