▲ | woodruffw 8 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> since gmail requires TLS i highly doubt that there are many servers out there that don't support it. Gmail doesn’t require TLS, unless by that you mean that their webmail interface is TLS only. Like every other mail provider, they do opportunistic TLS on external delivery, and TLS on MUA connections (SMTP and IMAP) is largely at the mercy of user configuration. The fact that people seem to think that TLS is a mainstay of the email ecosystem is clearly part of the problem here. As for the rest of this: I’ve hammered on about Signal because it’s the naive right choice, but it’s ultimately up to you to decide whether your phone number is an acceptable public identifier. But even if it isn’t, there is so much out there that’s indisputably better than this mess: Matrix or even iMessage (with an email identifier instead of a phone) would be better. | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | em-bee 7 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Gmail doesn’t require TLS according to this article it does: https://www.valimail.com/blog/the-new-requirements-for-email... and for one i think this is a good thing. otoh, according to this it doesn't: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6330403 but https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview shows that by now almost all emails sent and received by google go through TLS which i believe can be used as a proxy to assume that most servers out there now support TLS. signal fixed their phone number problem, so that is no longer an issue. matrix is not reliable enough. the encryption can break in the sense that messages can no longer be read. i am basically required to have a second unencrypted backchannel (or use a different app, but then why even bother) to make sure i can reach someone. (the issue i experienced could be due to a misconfiguration of a matrix server, but that's a bug in itself. it should not be possible to change the configuration of a server in such a way that my messages arrive but can not be decrypted anymore.) | |||||||||||||||||
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