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rootbeerdan t1_j0qp1qw wrote

Reply to comment by Bierbart12 in Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web by psychothumbs

Zero knowledge encryption is rare because people don't like losing access to everything if they forget their password.

Even then, email was never and will never be designed to be private. Anyone who says your email is completely private is lying to you. Even ProtonMail has quite misleading marketing because they can trace every email based on the metadata (which they conveniently leave out in almost all of their documentation).

If you want privacy, use Signal.

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Nullifid t1_j0qx3bh wrote

Why signal?

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rootbeerdan t1_j0r1hhd wrote

Because it was actually designed to be private and collect minimal metadata. The signal protocol is well understood and vetted, so for the 99.99% of people it’s extremely private and secure.

Of course you could go all the way back to using IRC with Tor and then using PGP to encrypt your messages, but if you get to that point E2EE is probably the least of your worries.

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Cultural-Height3898 t1_j0rn2rh wrote

Signal is awesome, now if only they'd remove requirement to use phone number that would be perfect.

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