Autocrypt Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Email Self-Defense - a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG encryption

  Also, isn't downloading and using DeltaChat would be easier? It used autocrypt protocol out of the box as well bunch of useful features and feels more like comfortable messenger than email. Source: 12 months ago

• PGP on Android

  You should look into the autocrypt standard and apps that can use it. Https://autocrypt.org/ Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocrypt. Source: over 1 year ago

• title crypted

  They can also use new headers then parse those, that is what Autocrypt does, See https://autocrypt.org/ . The email specification allows custom headers for extension. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: If there is a replacement for email, what should be the requirements?

  Requirement 1: It should be backwards compatible with existing email systems. As examples, consider Delta Chat and the Autocrypt specification it's built on. https://delta.chat/en/ https://autocrypt.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• What do you think about Telios?

  That's why I said https://delta.chat/en/ ;) An email-based messenger with https://autocrypt.org/. Source: over 2 years ago

• We’re members of the Global Encryption Coalition and we are fighting attempts from governments to undermine or ban the use of strong encryption – AMA

  Usability: Traditional e-mail clients that added support for e2ee did just about enough work to be able to claim it was functional. but we know, decades later, that software needs to be extremely simple and well-designed for large numbers of users to adopt it. So when users were faced with weird, confusing, or buggy tooling, they typically turned it off. How do we fix this? A lot more active research needs to... Source: over 2 years ago

• Is it true that Tutanota doesn't support openPGP?

  As PGP is still utilized Autocrypt is the implementation that makes sense for Tutanota (#198). Source: over 2 years ago

• PGP Is Dead

  If you want encrypted instant messaging, I'd recommend the Matrix ecosystem, using the Element apps.[0] For an email-based protocol, I would suggest Delta Chat[1], which is backwards compatible with existing email accounts, and follows the Autocrypt approach to PGP[2]. [0] https://element.io/ [1] https://delta.chat/en/ [2] https://autocrypt.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• PGP Is Dead

  > you have to use it in your existing email client, and then you have to download keys, and then there’s this whole third issue of making sure they’re the right keys. If you use Thunderbird as your email client, then it will download the right keys for you automatically.[0] Actually it's two clicks to use the WKD support to download the key (assuming your correspondent's email provider supports that, as ProtonMail... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• The new ProtonMail has passed its independent security audit

  > a new protocol that can degrade gracefully Does Autocrypt meet that definition? https://autocrypt.org/ Sadly, for the last 3 years, ProtonMail has resisted implementing it (unlike Posteo, for example), using FUD tactics to justify themselves: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient/issues/120. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• PGP Marks 30th Anniversary

  If we're sharing obligatory links, then a detailed critique of "The PGP Problem" is: https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp It's true, though, that much work is needed to bring PGP up to the levels expected of modern crypto tools. Hopefully some of that will happen as a result of the work happening in the IETF: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-03.html and due to technology... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• IMAP connection

  I think Autocrypt is meant to help address this issue, but not 100% sure. Someone, please correct me if this is wrong. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Question: Seemless Email Encryption

  It sounds like what you want should be doable, although I suspect it takes multiple parts working together. As for the sending messages part, one option is autocrypt, which I learned about from Mailpile (linked elsewhere in other comments). There are arguably more secure options, but autocrypt does make it easy to send encrypted emails (and switch to encryption when someone else starts encrypting their emails. Source: about 3 years ago