Bobby. wrote on Nov 1
st, 2022 at 12:37pm:
Dnarever wrote on Nov 1
st, 2022 at 8:25am:
Quote:There are aspects of this debate that we wish we were able to discuss more freely
A lot of us likely have such restrictions - There are points here that I have not made for the same reason.
Ummm?
So - I checked my
Outlook today and yes it does have an encryption capability but asked
for me to
get a certificate online which I don't think is free.
They didn't say.
They also didn't say if the Govt. has a backdoor on it
however I'm certain they do.
If it's true encryption then why should I advertise a public encryption key
which they may have control over - that they may also have access to?
Surely my computer should be able to make its own encryption key and only
provide it to those who need it?
It sounds very fishy to me.
There are several types of encription in play.
1) all transported mail is encrypted by default while in transit or stored in the mail system.
Quote:Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer (TLS/SSL), Internet Protocol Security (IPSec), and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
All used by default.
2) SMIME type encryption based on public and private keys is an additional form of encryption which encrypts the actual message text separately. You can generate your own keys (I believe)
3) Microsoft office 365 encryption - comes inbuilt if you have an office 365 E3 subscription.
Note these things are really only meant for real sensitive email and are much more likely to lose your data than to protect it.
Key Generation: If included in your windows version.
Open a command window as administrator and type
ssh-keygen
Tell it where to put the key pair.
I couldn't be bothered encrypting anything.
Govts. have backdoors on everything and so it seems do hackers.
That is my point.