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marcofabbri
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Day 13

What’s the most widely used mail encryption method?

  • GNU Privacy Guard
  • STARTTLS
  • PGP and S/MIME
  • DANE or MTA-STS
  • Bitmessage

Best answer by mkevenaar

I think that is PGP and S/MIME

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mkevenaar
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I think that is PGP and S/MIME


dips
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marcofabbri wrote:

Day 13

What’s the most widely used mail encryption method?

  • GNU Privacy Guard
  • STARTLES
  • PGP and S/MIME
  • DANE or MTA-STS
  • Bitmessage

Should that be STARTTLS instead of STARTLES?


dips
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I’m going with 

  • PGP and S/MIME

Chris.Childerhose
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PGP and S/MIME


Rick Vanover
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I’m on team PGP and S/MIME as well. Given Marco hasn’t answered we’re probably all wrong.


marcofabbri
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Rick Vanover wrote:

I’m on team PGP and S/MIME as well. Given Marco hasn’t answered we’re probably all wrong.

Nono you’re all right, I was waiting for tomorrow and leave some time to let all partecipate :)


marcofabbri
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PGP stands for “Pretty Good Privacy” and it’s the most widely used as email encryption system. When sending a message using PGP, the message is converted into unreadable ciphertext before it passes over the Internet. Only the recipient has the key to convert the text back into a readable message on their device.

 


dips
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Just wanted to say thanks for the daily questions @marcofabbri