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Re:Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without wa... by mtgx on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @11:39AM (#4809785)
I'm hoping web crypto will solve this, but only if the e-mail and storage service providers offer the option in an intuitive way, and I don't think the big ones like Google and Microsoft will want to do that unless we all demand it. It's also not going to be a finished draft until 2014, so we have to wait a little more.

http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto

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Re:Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without wa... by thematt on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @12:09PM (#4809954)
Web crypto will never solve this, especially not when provided by a big company like Google/MSFT. They'll always have provisions to make the unencrypted version available to authorities. You can only trust client side encryption.
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Re:Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without wa... by mtgx on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @12:41PM (#4810127)
Yes, that's what I meant. Implement web crypto and allow the user to use his own encryption key. So nobody but you and the recipient can access it (unless they can crack it, of course).
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