[Discuss] Data including email, stored in the cloud, may be available to law enforcement without search warrant

Edward Ned Harvey blu at nedharvey.com
Fri Nov 4 17:34:15 EDT 2011


> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Gregory Boyce
> 
> I suspect he's talking about transport encryption (SSL/TLS) while
> you're talking about message encryption (PGP/GPG)

Let's not forget S/MIME, which is SSL message encryption.
You know.  S/MIME.  The encryption protocol that's *actually* included in
every mail client, without needing something like a PGP/GPG plugin or 3rd
party app...

Unfortunately, there are a lot of situations where such things are not
possible, or not practical. Take this mailing list for example...




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