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user-inactivated  ·  3841 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ProtonMail: NSA proof encrypted e-mail that anyone can use

Everyone keep trying to reinvent the wheel. There is plenty of technology that already does this. Enigmail works fine, if a little unintuitive. I think people should work on securing client-side javascript encryption.





kuracisto  ·  3841 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I thought enigmail relied on PGP which is, you know...not so private.

user-inactivated  ·  3841 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What's wrong with pgp?

kuracisto  ·  3841 days ago  ·  link  ·  

blrlgmblfg...I got RSA and PGP mixed up. Nevermind.

user-inactivated  ·  3839 days ago  ·  link  ·  

PGP/GPG use RSA if you choose it (and by default), but you can use DSA too. If you are concerned about RSA's security then use DSA when generating your private key.

kuracisto  ·  3839 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, I wasn't quite as misinformed as I thought, but I really don't give myself an A+ for this. Thanks for the DSA tip.