"Don’t ask users anything about keys, ever." Autoencrypt have nailed a way to get email encrypted autocrypt.readthedocs.io/en/…
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An interesting idea, but limiting it to a single MUA per account is dangerously limiting.
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my hunch (totally off top of my head) is they could have a QR code system to safely copy private keys between clients?
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Or just have clients negotiate via the shared (IMAP) data store
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now I've read their spec, yes that does seem to be what they're planning for later levels. Maybe.
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ah, so they'd all declare all of their public keys in each mail?
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Replying to @frabcus
Eitehr that, or the MUAs negotiate a secured channel and share a private key around.

Feb 17, 2017 Β· 1:09 PM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone
a key question is what archival abilities people expect. I'd expect to be able to download and decrypt old mails years later
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Which would require that either over time your MUAs share the same key around (and it's backed up); or else that new MUAs reencrypt
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