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Encrypted email service Skiff gets acquired, will shut down in six months (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (11 children)

I dont get any of those "encrypted mail" services.

You need an app with good PGP support.

generation / import when logging in
share with every message
autoimport sent keys
encrypt messages if you have a key
sign every message
display a checkmark if message is signed

I have no idea what an "encrypted mail" provider is supposed to do differently. Either you use E2EE or you have to trust some random people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're all trying to reinvent email by bolting something else on top likely an in-house implementation of whatever's hot at the moment. However, the supposed benefits are completely gone once you're exchanging mails with any other email host.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Vendor lockin basically. Protonmail is doing something really bad in my eyes, in that they force you to use their app. That bridge works too, okay

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