Comment by NoGravitas
7 years ago
I strongly agree with this; email is not instant messaging, and there is not yet any secure replacement for email.
We need a modern design for a successor protocol to email, and no one is working on it because they prefer instant messaging (or think other people do).
Google has tried with Wave but failed. I don't think it can be done.
Everything would have to support SMTP as a fallback for the lot of people that just don't care and thus couldn't actually improve.
I think we're more likely to "accidentally" end up there via E2EE document collaboration tools that are in development now.
One day, a while after they become usable and common, people will just realize they've been sharing documents E2EE in place of sending email, and they'll be using it for basically everything that matters.
It would be a proper restart and allow for significant improvements in usability and security and everything else.
Can you point me to examples of such tools?
Still under active development, nothing is really ready to use yet