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Why don't email clients encrypt our mail by default?
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Mar 15, 2026987 viewsConfidence Score0%
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jwz - Netscape 4.0 was not my fault. During that dark period, I worked with Lisa Repka on S/MIME, Netscape's implementation of the then-new standard for cryptographically secure email. At the time, I was very glad that we managed to ship this before the U.S. Government had gotten around to making i…
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Because it's not trivial for users. E.g. I have a lot of different work places with different clients (gmail web interface, thunderbird on my notebook, kmail on home desktop, gmail on android device), and this is not uncommon even for non-technical …
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