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Re:Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email by TillE on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:35PM (#37230834)
Seems trivial enough to do client-side on modern hardware, especially if you exclude attachments.
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Re:Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email by raggi on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:37PM (#37230844)
Without producing confirmation side channels and so on? Doesn’t seem that trivial- at least it needs more thought than assumption of simplicity
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Re:Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email by amilich on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:45PM (#37230903)
We do it in a fairly straightforward manner right now. Check out the blog I linked to above - generate an in-memory index, end-to-end encrypt it, and store it browser storage. It's only decrypted in memory.
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