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Re:The Dream of Usable Email Encryption Is Still a Work in P... by Bino on Sunday March 27, 2016 @12:26PM (#11370470)
E2E encryption has a very long way to go. If PGP or S/MIME were the answer it would had successes (conquered the world) by now. I do appreciate the security advocates preaching PGP, but in all fairness it may be a lost cause. Some security is better than none and so we should applaud google and others' initiative to improve the encryption at the transport (SMTP protocol) level, without too much involvement of the end-user. And hope more will follow, whatever it may be.

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/02/making-email-safer-for-... https://openbit.eu/projekte/trusted-internet-services/

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Re:The Dream of Usable Email Encryption Is Still a Work in P... by tptacek on Sunday March 27, 2016 @01:14PM (#11370633)
Because of the way technology adoption works, pushing for "some security" over "no security" is a good way to end up with "some security" (and, because attacks only get better, over the long run back to no security) forever.
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