[liberationtech] Mailvelope: OpenPGP Encryption for Webmail

Geoff Beier geoffbeier at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 13:53:16 PST 2012


>
>
> This (could finally be) email encryption done right: encryption is
> performed on the user's browser, so that the server storing the
> communication never sees the contents of the message.
>
> However, after installing it on Chrome, I have a few concerns:
>
> [snip]

One concern that may be worth adding is that, in the case of webmail
similar to gmail, the extension does not appear to prevent periodic drafts
from being sent to the server as you compose your message. These drafts
are, naturally, stored in the clear and can be read by the server
operators.

Geoff
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