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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."

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  1. re: Email Clients with Encrypted Archives? by zantrox · · Score: 5, Funny

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  2. Simple: Encrypt the filesystem. by Marijn · · Score: 5, Informative

    Really simple, just use an encrypted file-system. Either in a partition or via loopback in a file (convinient for backuping).

    Save, Simple, and you can use any email software you want.

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    -- Aji con Todo!
  3. 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.