I did wonder when I saw ‘secure’ and ‘email’ on the same line, but figured Peter meant he was using PGP.
(which is again not secure once the other person gets it, they can just forward it on, or have an automatic rule that posts it to every social media site in creation. :-) ) I’ve just this conversation about security and email, as well as sovereignty with a customer who wanted to move their mail from gmail to an on-site imap host to make it ‘more secure’. I made the damned fool mistake of asking what the meant by ‘more secure’ and wound having to reach for the tinfoil hat halfway through the conversation! :-) Cheers, Chris H. > On 10/01/2016, at 13:53, criggie <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/01/16 12:00, Peter wrote: >> a good secure return email [email protected] (uses encryption) > > Just a niggle - email is a guaranteed insecure medium. You cannot be sure > that an email will only ever be carried by smtps connections, and the MTA > itself holds the email in plain text when it is at rest. > > If you want secure email look at proper encryption with keys. > > This GMX claim is "secure-washing" at best. > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
