Show HN: Forward Email – Open-Source Quantum Safe Encrypted Email Service

Re:Show HN: Forward Email – Open-Source Quantum Safe Encrypt... by vinniepukh on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:26PM (#38798181)

Cool product!

Question regarding encryption:

It seems that unless there's an active IMAP connection, emails are written in plaintext to a temporary location and are only added to the encrypted mailbox once a new IMAP connection starts. This is because you use symmetric encryption and need the user's password.

Have you considered incorporating public key encryption in your architecture and if so, why did you choose not to?

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Re:Show HN: Forward Email – Open-Source Quantum Safe Encrypt... by forwardemail on Thursday December 28, 2023 @04:34PM (#38798960)

Hi there @vinniepukh - we already support this! If you upload your public key, then all messages stored to temporary storage will be encrypted. We have a guide at https://forwardemail.net/en/faq#do-you-support-openpgpmime-e... (note the "Optional Add-on" section).

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