Re:The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN
by gumby on Thursday September 16, 2021 @11:14PM
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> So, it sounds like emails are stored on a third-party serve...This is sort of unavoidable for email as I understand it.
They don’t have to store the mail on a third party server.
Email is by definition stored, at least until you retrieve it, so that’s unavoidable.
They could use some public key scheme where they encrypt incoming mail and only the user could decrypt it, but it definitely would be a lot of work. A read buffer’s worth of plaintext would exist briefly in their server’s RAM. I suspect this is more work than any but a tiny number of users would want to deal with.
They don’t have to store the mail on a third party server.
Email is by definition stored, at least until you retrieve it, so that’s unavoidable.
They could use some public key scheme where they encrypt incoming mail and only the user could decrypt it, but it definitely would be a lot of work. A read buffer’s worth of plaintext would exist briefly in their server’s RAM. I suspect this is more work than any but a tiny number of users would want to deal with.