I don’t understand why it took us 50 years to figure out how to do encrypted messaging-over-email. Anyone wanna swap email addresses?

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    1 year ago

    if you (and your friends) control your (and their) keys, then the actual contents of your communications can’t be compromised. i think email is fine if you understand the limitations.

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        1 year ago

        i would never bother with anything that i consider to be highly secure over any clearnet service. but for keeping advertisers out of my messages or just run of the mill dragnets, or spot-censorship (like how facebook or others forbid certain links), i think deltachat is a really reasonable solution.

        but to this point:

        , it is inadvisable for privacy to keep data (even in an encrypted form) on a server post delivery.

        deltachat has an option to delete server-side.

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            1 year ago

            this is my settings screen. it looks like you would need to actually ask your friends to turn on the server-side purging.