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Re:Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland by tptacek on Friday May 16, 2014 @07:35PM (#7758524)
Verification isn't possible in modern browsers. This is an inherently hard problem, one that has caused some people who've launched carefully-designed encrypted mail systems to abandon the effort.
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Re:Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland by read on Friday May 16, 2014 @09:05PM (#7758843)
Am I understanding you correctly that verification IS possible in browsers, just not the existing modern ones (e.g. because of limitations in the existing modern ones) and that browser crypto is possible?

(I recognize it might inherently be a hard problem, but hard does not equal impossible. I also recognize there are benefits to a simpler solution that can outweigh the benefits of a harder solution.)

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