Poll: Do you encrypt your email?

Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by dhotson on Sunday July 14, 2013 @10:54PM (#6043421)

Encrypting the message content sounds sensible. But as far as I'm aware you can't encrypt the to/from fields.

As we've seen recently, this kind of metadata is often just as revealing as the content.

Encryption for email is probably giving you a false sense of security. If you care about privacy, email feels inappropriate to me.

So then the question is, what is the alternative? Honest question—I feel kind of helpless about it.

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Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by gnosis on Sunday July 14, 2013 @11:19PM (#6043497)

You might find it interesting/useful to read about:

steganography[1], anonymous remailers[2] (particularly the Mixminion[3] type), the Paranoid Security Guide[4] (which was on HN today[5]), and a nice talk on privacy and anonymity options[6][7]

There were also a couple of lists of darknets on HN recently, but I can't find them right now.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailers

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixminion

[4] - http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24722

[5] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6040381

[6] - Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHoJ9pQ0cn8

[7] - Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9fByRmAHgU

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Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by emhs on Monday July 15, 2013 @12:03AM (#6043650)

Alternative Internet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6006393 Prism Break: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6010803

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Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by DanBC on Monday July 15, 2013 @01:50AM (#6043941)

Is there any steganography product that helps hide communications metadata?

Also, is there any serious steganography product that correctly hides plain text? (I know there are many proof-of-concepts and experiments and toys)

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