Encrypted email is still a pain

Re:Encrypted email is still a pain by m3rc on Monday February 13, 2017 @12:23PM (#13636959)

By that logic shouldn't we try to encrypt SMS? Email as a protocol has huge security issues, and email as it is currently used honestly is NOT federated or decentralized.

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Re:Encrypted email is still a pain by Freak_NL on Monday February 13, 2017 @12:28PM (#13637017)

For personal use email is rarely self-hosted, but corporations, governments, and organisations often run their own email infrastructure. That effectively makes email a decentralized federated system.

You might argue how a lot of email is either send to or send from Google, Apple, or Microsoft services, and that is thus somewhat centralized, but isn't that stretching the definition?

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Re:Encrypted email is still a pain by m3rc on Monday February 13, 2017 @12:46PM (#13637183)

Is talking about government organizations hosting their own email servers really a point in email's favor in 2017?

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Re:Encrypted email is still a pain by detaro on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @02:40AM (#13641928)

Why would it be a point against it? I generally think my government being in control of its communication infrastructure is a good thing.

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Re:Encrypted email is still a pain by Freak_NL on Monday February 13, 2017 @01:40PM (#13637608)

It means email federation is alive and well.

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