I don’t understand why it took us 50 years to figure out how to do encrypted messaging-over-email. Anyone wanna swap email addresses?
I don’t understand why it took us 50 years to figure out how to do encrypted messaging-over-email. Anyone wanna swap email addresses?
if you (and your friends) control your (and their) keys, then the actual contents of your communications can’t be compromised. i think email is fine if you understand the limitations.
The metadata itself is pretty valuable. In this case, the metadata exposes who, where, when, and how often the conversations take place. And that metadata is valuable.
Generally speaking, it is inadvisable for privacy to keep data (even in an encrypted form) on a server post delivery.
i would never bother with anything that i consider to be highly secure over any clearnet service. but for keeping advertisers out of my messages or just run of the mill dragnets, or spot-censorship (like how facebook or others forbid certain links), i think deltachat is a really reasonable solution.
but to this point:
deltachat has an option to delete server-side.
When you send a message on signal, it gets delivered and then purged from all servers. Does Deltachat do this by default, and if not, can one user request the other user’s side delete messages on their servers?
Email also runs into a “server copy” problem that is not necessarily built into instant messaging, especially privacy oriented services: A server/servers will store separate copies of messages for all people in a conversation, making it twice as difficult to delete even if all sides of the conversation wish to delete it from the server.
you’re asking more than i really know here. i haven’t even convinced any of my friends to use it. it was hard enough getting their email addresses lol.
I appreciate your commitment to responding to me, though 🙂 you knew more than I did
this is my settings screen. it looks like you would need to actually ask your friends to turn on the server-side purging.