• John Richard
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    -19 months ago

    IMAPs is just IMAP on TLS, so it does not have anything to do with e2ee in this context.

    If you use GnuPG or one of the GUI implementations it does.

    You do realize e2ee merely means that two users share public keys when they communicate in order to decrypt the messages they receive, right?

    *DAV clients expect cleartext data on the server. If you encrypt the data, you need to build all this logic into the clients, and you are not following the standard anymore, which means you will anyway be bound to your client only (and those which implement compatibility).

    You’re talking about people paying for cloud services that manage everything for them. Nothing to stop you from hosting your own on an encrypted drive. EteSync does E2E already, and there is already a plethora of apps supporting PGP on Android and Desktop to encrypt/decrypt messages.

    • @sudneo
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      19 months ago

      If you use GnuPG or one of the GUI implementations it does.

      No, because it’s the server that terminates the TLS connection, not the recipient’s client. TLS is purely a security control to protect the transport between you and the server you are talking to. It doesn’t have anything to do with e2ee. It’s still important, of course, but not for e2ee.

      You do realize e2ee merely means that two users share public keys when they communicate in order to decrypt the messages they receive, right?

      And how does TLS between you and your mail server help with this? Does it give you any guarantee that the public key was not tampered when it reached your server? Or instead you use the fingerprint, generally transmitted through another medium to verify that?

      Nothing to stop you from hosting your own on an encrypted drive.

      An encrypted drive is useful only when the server is off against physical attacks. While the server is powered on (which is when it gets breached - not considering physical attacks) the data is still in clear.

      EteSync does E2E already

      And…it requires a specialized client anyway. In fact, they built a DAV bridge (https://github.com/etesync/etesync-dav). Now tell me, if you use this on -say- your phone, can you use other DAV tools without using such bridge? No, because it does something very similar to what Proton does. If proton bridge will get calendar/contacts functionality too (if, because I have no idea how popular of a FR it is), you are in the exact same situation.