On Sunday 29 April 2018 02:46:20 deloptes wrote: > dep wrote: > > it's not either/or. protonmail is a secure mail service, not a mail > > client. you can learn about it if you like at protonmail.com. thing > > is, access to protonmail in linux is currently via a secure web > > interface (or an unofficial desktop app that is really a secure > > browser dedicated to protonmail). for windows and mac there is a > > thing called protonmail bridge. it encrypts the mail on the local > > machine before sending it, and decrypts it upon receipt, allowing > > more traditional mail clients to send and receive mail through > > protonmail. there is currently a beta, available only from > > protonmail, of the bridge for linux. that is what i am trying to > > install, so i can continue to use kmail, as i have for nearly two > > decades. > > > > part of the reason for this is a change of the terms of use by my > > isp a week ago, wherein they announced that they would be combing > > through my email, pictures, and everything else in search of things > > useful to them. as a reporter and photographer for a living, i found > > this unacceptable. hence protonmail and hence my desire to make it > > work with kmail. > > In my opinion the PGPG support in KMail is pretty sufficient to enable > secure communication with any recipient. If you don't mind all the TLA's reading it. I still think that a backdoor or a universal key in it was the price of letting Phil out of jail. TANSTAAFL, there is no way to bypass it. So if I was ever to use pgp and assume it was good, it would be built from version 2.62a, published before he was arrested. And I have no idea where I could obtain a copy of that src to build it now since the boot drive in my amiga 2000 died and took the os with it. > Why would you bother paying for something you already have? What pgp we have today, the NSA can read in 5 seconds. They have said as much. > I ask myself if you clearly understand the concept of encrypted mails? I think I do. :) > regards > -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>