On Sunday 29 April 2018 02:46:20 deloptes wrote:
dep wrote:
it's not either/or. protonmail is a secure mail service, not a mail client. you can learn about it if you like at protonmail.com. thing is, access to protonmail in linux is currently via a secure web interface (or an unofficial desktop app that is really a secure browser dedicated to protonmail). for windows and mac there is a thing called protonmail bridge. it encrypts the mail on the local machine before sending it, and decrypts it upon receipt, allowing more traditional mail clients to send and receive mail through protonmail. there is currently a beta, available only from protonmail, of the bridge for linux. that is what i am trying to install, so i can continue to use kmail, as i have for nearly two decades.
part of the reason for this is a change of the terms of use by my isp a week ago, wherein they announced that they would be combing through my email, pictures, and everything else in search of things useful to them. as a reporter and photographer for a living, i found this unacceptable. hence protonmail and hence my desire to make it work with kmail.
In my opinion the PGPG support in KMail is pretty sufficient to enable secure communication with any recipient.
If you don't mind all the TLA's reading it. I still think that a backdoor or a universal key in it was the price of letting Phil out of jail.
TANSTAAFL, there is no way to bypass it.
So if I was ever to use pgp and assume it was good, it would be built from version 2.62a, published before he was arrested. And I have no idea where I could obtain a copy of that src to build it now since the boot drive in my amiga 2000 died and took the os with it.
Why would you bother paying for something you already have?
What pgp we have today, the NSA can read in 5 seconds. They have said as much.
I ask myself if you clearly understand the concept of encrypted mails?
I think I do. :)
regards