(A) is solved by plaintext email, which we all currently use.
(B) is solved by autocrypt
(C) is solved by GPG + keyservers/web of trust
currently almost everybody uses A and almost nobody uses C.
If we get lots of people using B it’s going to increase the cost of mass surveillance enormously. and may ease the transition to C significantly. This is a huge win.
threat models:
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currently almost everybody uses A and almost nobody uses C.
If we get lots of people using B it’s going to increase the cost of mass surveillance enormously. and may ease the transition to C significantly. This is a huge win.
related: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7435
Found out about this software from HOPE. Talk is here https://livestream.com/accounts/9198012/hope/videos/177999980 but has extra content after.
Looks very promising