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
--
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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