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Re:Show HN: Forward Email – Open-Source Quantum Safe Encrypt... by jruohonen on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @08:36PM (#38788976)
Nice pitch with the quantum!
Re:Show HN: Forward Email – Open-Source Quantum Safe Encrypt... by forwardemail on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @08:42PM (#38789010)
Thank you, we've put a ton of work into this. Not only are your mailboxes encrypted with SQLite using ChaCha20-Poly1305 [1], but you can also now add an OpenPGP key [2] (for double encryption).

We support SMTP, POP3, IMAP, API, webhooks, regular expressions, and more.

[1]: https://forwardemail.net/blog/docs/best-quantum-safe-encrypt...

[2]: https://forwardemail.net/faq#do-you-support-openpgpmime-end-...

Re:Show HN: Forward Email – Open-Source Quantum Safe Encrypt... by jruohonen on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @08:48PM (#38789048)
> Thank you, we've put a ton of work into this.

Sorry; I was being unnecessarily ironic because there really is no "quantum safe" things yet. Otherwise nice work; always nice to see more competition in this space!

Re:Show HN: Forward Email – Open-Source Quantum Safe Encrypt... by forwardemail on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @08:53PM (#38789074)
RE: Competition:

We are the *only* email service provider that is 100% open-source. Proton Mail [1], Skiff [2], and Tuta [3] all have closed-source back-ends, despite advertising as closed-source.

RE: Quantum Safe:

ChaCha20-Poly1305 is generally considered to be quantum safe [4] [5].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/b847n7/comment/...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Skiff/comments/10yn8a5/comment/j811...

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/10hghin/comment/j...

[4]: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/79518/is-xchacha2...

[5]: https://old.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/suk2k7/is_chacha20p...

Re:Show HN: Forward Email – Open-Source Quantum Safe Encrypt... by ktm5j on Thursday December 28, 2023 @02:39PM (#38797611)
Umm do you have any better sources for the crypto claims than Stack Exchange and Reddit? That's not really putting my mind at ease.
Re:Show HN: Forward Email – Open-Source Quantum Safe Encrypt... by josephcsible on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @08:56PM (#38789088)
> there really is no "quantum safe" things yet

What about, e.g., OpenSSH's post-quantum key exchange [email protected]?

Re:Show HN: Forward Email – Open-Source Quantum Safe Encrypt... by jruohonen on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @09:07PM (#38789171)
> [email protected]?

I am not an expert in this space but, as far as I can tell, these are all work-in-progress, as is quantum computing itself. There are several research groups and committees involved, including at, say, IETF and the like.