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Comment by gruez

1 day ago

You mean e2e? on-disk encryption (ie. "encryption at rest") is basically used by everyone, including gmail and outlook.

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guerrilla  1 day ago

You can tell how well I've researched this ;) but yes.

  • burnte  19 hours ago

    Indeed. The HTTPS connection is enecrypted, and they TRY to use TLS first when delivering mail, but it will fall back to cleartext easily if the other end doesn't support TLS.

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