Rambler OP wrote on December 25, 2020 at 4:56 AM

What are your thoughts?

RichardButte wrote on December 25, 2020 at 1:55 PM

E-mail is outdated, the steps required to get truly safe e-mailing is beyond regular users reach and trusting third parties to handle the technical security isn't the right way forward. Look at Tutanota and the recent forced backdooring.

The next step is rather to have personal end-to-end, peer-to-peer communication systems.

Rambler OP wrote on December 25, 2020 at 2:21 PM

The next step is rather to have personal end-to-end, peer-to-peer communication systems.

Which some platforms have, it seems, but then you're stuck communicating to only those within that platform. I believe ZeroNet has something similar, where you could technically email me at nxm9c2wjbjlhjsrc@zeroid.bit but I never check it because no one ever uses it. You can also mail me on I2P's network as well, at (I forget) @mail.i2p, but once again, it's network specific.

Whoever can get the major networks and up-and-comers to agree upon some sort of standardized P2P E2E encrypted mail system that can be accessed from anywhere, then you'd have a winner.

But I doubt that's possible with all the various networks working hard to implement their own vision.

solstice wrote on December 29, 2020 at 8:40 PM

Look at Tutanota and the recent forced backdooring.

Do you have a source for this? The only news I've found is Tutanota being forced to hand over new outgoing and incoming emails of one user who was a suspected criminal, not a backdoor for the whole service.