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Delta Chat: The e-mail messenger (delta.chat)
submitted 11 months ago by federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why send messages (encrypted or not) across multiple providers that get to see who you are communicating with, when you are communicating, and how often you are communicating? (i.e. why not just use a dedicated messaging app that we know doesn’t suck?)

who do you KNOW doesn't suck? myself, i like disroot, but i still prefer to encrypt any comms that go across their services, because i can't explicitly trust them. i don't even (really) trust riseup.net. it's always best to encrypt anything thats sensitive yourself and control the keys.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

i think it's worth pointing out that pgp-protected messages would still be secure in the case of the kolektiva breach, not that anyone is e2ee for mastodon messages.

[–] federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.