I've recently had a few questions on encrypting emails and figured that
sending this to the list might help.
Step 1: Use email safely (don't leak your password and be wary of
leaving server-side copies).
Step 2: Meet and trust people who you're going to exchange messages
with. Un
ons who
aren't
eveninto technology nor know about privacy issues, that's the implicit story.
-Jonathan
- Original Message -
> From: Nick M. Daly
> To: freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, November 9, 2012 11:47 PM
> Subject: [Fre
Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> Apropos of the ongoing Petraeus media circus-- a box with a simple setup
> to provide a basic email server would be very desirable
For complete email security, you need PGP for end-to-end encryption.
That needs to be done on the end systems, not on the Box.
There are th
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> Apropos of the ongoing Petraeus media circus-- ...
EFF have an interesting analysis:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/when-will-our-email-betray-us-email-privacy-primer-light-petraeus-saga
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:48:50PM -0500, Sandy Harris wrote:
> The Box should, I think, support a webmail interface because
> that is what many people are used to. That should use SSL
> encryption by default; this protects mail on the wire or in the
> air between the server and your desktop or la
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On 16/11/12 07:35, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Most attempted delivery from dynamic user space will bounce, and
> requiring smarthosts clashes both with the zero administration
> requirement and adds an additional point of attack.
>
> There is no really good
Michael Rogers writes:
> On 16/11/12 07:35, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> Most attempted delivery from dynamic user space will bounce, and
>> requiring smarthosts clashes both with the zero administration
>> requirement and adds an additional point of attack.
>
> I think this is way too pessimistic. Yes,
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:04:44AM -0600, Nick M. Daly wrote:
> For no reason I can explain, my box can send outgoing mail without issue
> (I haven't purchased or defined an MX record or smarthost, IIRC). It
Are you on residential broadband? Do you have a dynamic address pool?
If still yes, then
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On 16/11/12 13:44, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>>> Alternatively, the FBX could act as a PGP proxy for an existing
>>> email account: the FBX would encrypt email before sending it to
>>> the existing
>
> This is a bad solution, as you will need an email accoun
On 2012-11-16 at 14:22:07 +, Michael Rogers wrote:
> > Your IMAP server should be on your FBX.
> Yes, in an ideal world we'd all run our own mail servers. In the real
> world it's not possible to run a mail server on a home broadband
> connection,
actually, you *can* run an *IMAP* server at h
- Original Message -
> From: Nick M. Daly
> To: Michael Rogers ; Eugen Leitl
> Cc: freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 8:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Email Encryption Basics
>
> Michael Rogers writes:
>
- Original Message -
> From: Elena ``of Valhalla''
> To: freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 11:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Email Encryption Basics
>
> On 2012-11-16 at 14:22:07 +, Michae
On 17/11/12 18:48, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
Anyway, I think there's a sea change occurring on how people look at
the trade-off between convenience and privacy. Tonight on Real Time
with Bill Maher, Bill asked the guests what the FBI is doing reading
the emails of people involved in a sex scandal
On 17/11/12 01:22, Michael Rogers wrote:
In the real world it's not possible to run a mail server on a home
broadband connection,
Could have fooled me..!
Works fine for me.
My $0.02 is don't bite off more than we can chew. Get people's primary
data storage off "The Cloud" first. Then worry a
- Original Message -
> From: Russell Edwards
> To: freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 5:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Email Encryption Basics
>
> On 17/11/12 01:22, Michael Rogers wrote:
>>
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On 17/11/12 10:48, Russell Edwards wrote:
> On 17/11/12 01:22, Michael Rogers wrote:
>> In the real world it's not possible to run a mail server on a
>> home broadband connection,
>
> Could have fooled me..!
>
> Works fine for me.
Sorry, I should ha
- Original Message -
> From: Michael Rogers
> To: Russell Edwards
> Cc: freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 12:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Email Encryption Basics
>
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> Has
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On 19/11/12 21:01, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> But my mental model of the FBX is a mass-market "privacy
>> appliance". I get the impression no two people on this list have
>> identical mental models of the FBX, and I'm not saying that's a
>> bad thing.
- Original Message -
> From: Michael Rogers
> To: Jonathan Wilkes
> Cc: Russell Edwards ;
> "freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org"
>
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 6:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Email Encryption Basics
>
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:19:34PM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> I'm not sure how to get from a to b, where a is no FBX and b is FBX as
> described in those sentences I quoted from the website. If it's the
> case that (spam-free, non-blacklisted) email in its current incarnation
> can be done w
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