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Email Clients with Encrypted Archives?

Posted by Cliff on from the yet-another-cool-feature-idea dept.

jasonbrown asks: "If your like a lot of us, you want to keep all your good email for later viewing. Then again, who wants to have all that personal stuff laying around when some higher power decides to dig through it. I was wondering if the Slashdot community knows of any good, preferably linux compatible, email clients with an encrypted archive to keep your old email away from prying eyes."

2 of 49 comments (clear)

  1. Get a grip by coyote-san · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You've been watching too many spy movies...

    The issue most of us face isn't somebody actively snooping into our lives at all times, it's our boss taking a peek around our system to try to find some dirt. Nothing criminal, not even acting in bad faith, but a discussion of how much the VP looked like a drunk duck or a dancing Balmer at a "rally the troops" meeting would do nicely in damaging our image with senior management.

    Of course the boss could ask IT to search the mail archives kept by the company, but then they would have dirt on him! Nope, much better to make a midnight raid and 'accidently' forward the incriminating message to the topic of discussion late some night....

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    For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
  2. Re:useless by markj02 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    That's utter BS. There are plenty of reasons you may want to encrypt your E-mail archives even if it's transmitted in plain text. Perhaps you keep them on a laptop and worry about it getting stolen. Perhaps you use a secure VPN for getting your corporate mail and now want to secure the on-disk storage.

    Furthermore, for any reasonable cryptosystem, having even tons of plaintex and encrypted text available is not sufficient to recover the key.