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Re:Skiff: Various Privacy Failures by forwardemail on Sunday January 14, 2024 @05:02PM (#38994880)
That is not true. You can upload a PGP key and all your email written to SQLite (IMAP/POP3) will be stored with your PGP key. Not plain text. SMTP is for outbound, IMAP/POP3 is for inbound.

https://forwardemail.net/en/faq#do-you-support-openpgpmime-e...

Re:Skiff: Various Privacy Failures by forwardemail on Sunday January 14, 2024 @05:07PM (#38994914)
Here is the actual code in the back-end where we use your PGP public key:

Source code for PGP encryption for storage when you're connected (we only use your password in-memory, and never write it to disk on our side) @ https://github.com/forwardemail/forwardemail.net/blob/562a52...

Outbound email automatically checks for PGP key in case you didn't include the recipients (we use WKD): https://github.com/forwardemail/forwardemail.net/blob/562a52...

Your individual mailbox is a SQLite database file and is encrypted using ChaCha20-Poly1305 as well (using your password, which only you have access to; we only use it in-memory and don't write it to disk).

Re:Skiff: Various Privacy Failures by cedws on Sunday January 14, 2024 @05:08PM (#38994920)
Right, but inbound emails over POP/IMAP will be TLS encrypted. You're saying emails are encrypted at rest, but they cannot be encrypted in-flight because it's forwardemail that holds the TLS private key.