What's your checklist when wanting to communicate securely over email?
Ask HN: How do you go about email security?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you go about email security?
#2Friendly suggestion: Please add more context and details to your question.
What’s your goal? What’s your threat model?
Example: If jane@gmail.com sends an email to john@gmail.com, there’s not much risk that John’s creepy neighbor would MITM. But the payload (email) is not end-to-end-encrypted, i.e. Google can access the plaintext.
For sensitive conversations: Please use Signal instead.
Re: Ask HN: How do you go about email security?
#3Just use PGP, but keep in mind headers won't be encrypted.
If it doesn't fit your bill, just give up and use other methods of communication that aren't email. Email just wasn't built for this sort of purpose in mind.
Re: Ask HN: How do you go about email security?
#47-zip a text file with a password then email it a friend and tell them the email sentence password on a voice phone call. e.g. "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." and explain the capitalization and punctuation. It's not a high level of security but simple enough for anyone I have ever emailed to figure out. Save the sentence used with a specific friend in your password database under a nickname for them and only use it with that specific friend.
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