[HN Gopher] Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption i...
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       Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026
        
       Author : some_furry
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2026-01-04 22:07 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | iamnothere wrote:
       | Was going to submit this but it was already submitted and then
       | flagged.
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       | It's true, email is probably unfixable. It's ok as a digital
       | postcard though, and sometimes that's all you need. If we could
       | finally get rid of either SMS or email I'd have to pick SMS. But
       | we're probably stuck with both due to politics and network
       | effects.
       | 
       | I didn't see any mention of Delta Chat as an attempt to secure
       | email. I do like Delta Chat on chatmail servers (see
       | https://chatmail.at/doc/relay/faq.html#what-is-the-differenc...).
       | Signal is better security-wise but I am very much oriented
       | towards federation or full decentralization. For myself, I worry
       | more about a service being blocked than I do targeted attacks,
       | although I understand that others have different threat models.
        
         | xeonmc wrote:
         | IMO DeltaChat is better thought of as "chat tunnel disguised
         | over email" and works best when there is no consideration made
         | for traditional mailbox compatibility, since its killer feature
         | is inbox-fluidity due to only using them as dumb relays and so
         | you can change/add multiple randomly generated fallback
         | addresses for the same identity without being tied to any one
         | inbox.
        
           | HoJojoMojo wrote:
           | If I understand correctly, blocking is basically impossible
           | unless a "citizen" is blocked from using any mail server not
           | regulated by a specific country that then demands scanning
           | for it?
        
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