Terence Eden
🆕 blog! “Envelopes and GDPR”
Privacy is a funny concept, isn't it? Very few people want the whole world to know what medical complaints they have. But most hospitals are open-access buildings, where the waiting rooms have large monitors to tell patients that their doctor is running late. A few years ago I was sat in the proctology waiting room. […]
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Terence Eden
@PlaneSailingGames You are a little out of date.
Gmail - and most other large email providers - use TLS to secure your email in transit.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/explained-how-tls-keeps-your-email-secure-88310223169.html?guccounter=1
Steve Hill 🏴🇪🇺
@Edent @PlaneSailingGames That isn't end-to-end encryption, that is only transport layer encryption: the email still gets decrypted by every mail server it passes through, and still sits unencrypted (or at least, readily decryptable by the provider) in your mailbox.
End-to-end encryption means it gets encrypted by the sender and decrypted by the recipient, not by any of the hope in between.
Alex White
I was surprised by this line
"Would going digital solve this? Email is mostly end-to-end encrypted between the big providers, so it would be unlikely that anyone saw it as it was being delivered."
I thought that email was still almost entirely *unencrypted* and visible to anyone who it passes by along the way? Encryption (and signing) seem to have foundered on the public key distribution problem in the past.
What has changed?
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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