Ask HN: What feature would you want the web to “force” next, after HTTPS?

Re:Ask HN: What feature would you want the web to “force” ne... by fosco on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @02:01PM (#14754886)

While I agree, there is definitely movement and recent movement [0][1] , I just wish I had the knowledge to contribute. I am great and figuring out how things work, breaking them and understanding them. Building from scratch is a bit above my head, albeit I have a few ideas....

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14708783 [1] https://magmadaemon.org/

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Re:Ask HN: What feature would you want the web to “force” ne... by swiley on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @02:07PM (#14754963)

We already have standards for encrypting/authenticating email transfer between mail servers and between the server and user agent.

This doesn't solve the problem of mail being encrypted in transit. As far as I can tell the server operator can still read the user's mail. What we need is end-to-end encryption, lack of support in MUAs (iphone mail app, thunderbird etc.) is the problem here, it has really nothing to do with the server.

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Re:Ask HN: What feature would you want the web to “force” ne... by yorwba on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @08:35PM (#14757898)

> lack of support in MUAs (iphone mail app, thunderbird etc.)

Thunderbird supports S/MIME out of the box and PGP through an addon, so I'm not sure what other kinds of end-to-end encryption you'd want to see. Not sure about the iPhone mail app.

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