Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
by viraptor on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:57AM
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Emails aren't encrypted, because there is no good way to manage trust between users at this point. PGP exists, but it's key management sucks in many ways. But look at a lot of large corporations where the trust can be bound to one service and encryption will be just one click away. S/MIME is a widely adopted standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/MIME) in email and works well.
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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
by potatoman22 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:20AM
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There's no good way to manage trust between users because the services have to be interoperable. Look at messaging services like Telegram or Signal; end-to-end encryption is easy because they're single entities who decide how all messages are sent and received on their platforms.
Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
by viraptor on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:24PM
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I don't think communication services themselves have to be interpretable to manage trust correctly. See PGP used in email, git, package signing, etc. - completely unrelated actions, same trust network.
"How all messages are sent" and "who signed the message" are mostly separate issues. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging which works on pretty much any messaging app/network.