Hi, Sorry if this was mentioned before but I've just come across a novel approach to email encryption that doesn't do end-to-end encryption, but rather it encrypts email upon receipt so that an individual can encrypt the email that is stored in their IMAP account as it arrives without the need for every sender to encrypt and without the need for any service provider's involvement (you just need an IMAP account), and it supports reading email from multiple devices, each with their own local private key. Most importantly, it doesn't require the user to know anything about encryption except that they want some.
It might not address all threats but it certainly seems to solve some very real threats, mainly the threat of someone hacking into your IMAP account and accessing every email you ever received. Making It Easier to Encrypt Your Emails Authors: John S. Koh, Steven M. Bellovin, and Jason Nieh https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/fall2019/koh [paywall, usenix] Why Joanie Can Encrypt: Easy Email Encryption with Easy Key Management EuroSys '19 Proceedings of the Fourteenth EuroSys Conference 2019 Authors: John S. Koh, Steven M. Bellovin, Jason Nieh https://doi.org/10.1145/3302424.3303980 [paywall, acm] http://nieh.net/pubs/eurosys2019_e3.pdf [free] Easy Email Encryption with Easy Key Management Authors: John S. Koh, Steven M. Bellovin, Jason Nieh https://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=1639 [free] Automatically and invisibly encrypt email as soon as it is received on any trusted device https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2019/04/01/easy-email-encryption/ [free] I know this doesn't help with the discussion of improving GUIs to make it easier to encrypt emails that you want to send, but it looks like a promising improvement in privacy that could help many more people than just those that want to encrypt emails that they send. And it's still relevant. I expect that those that want to encrypt any emails that they send might also like all the emails that they receive to be encrypted as well. cheers, raf _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
