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 Message 768 
 Wilfred van Velzen to August Abolins 
 Re: Safester, anyone? 
 27 Jan 22 15:30:00 
 
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Hi August,

On 2022-01-27 09:19:00, you wrote to All:

 AA> Anyone familiar with Safester?  A friend of mine just wrote to me..

 AA> "While doing some early morning surfing, I came across yet another "better
 AA> way to do email encryption" called "Safester".

 AA> "It is available for windows, linux, macOS, iOS and android.

 AA> "They publish their C# code on github so theoretically their stuff is open
 AA> source. The free option has unlimited inbox size, but outbox is limited in
 AA> size to 500MB.

 AA> "They apparently use openpgp for end to end encryption, and they use your
 AA> existing email address, but their own servers for storage of the encrypted
 AA> email content (ie. they are a cloud email storage server).

So it's not a universal "solution", just a business model for them...

 AA> "They do NOT allow you to use your own PGP keys, though!!!

Which makes me not want to use it.

 AA> "Have you heard anything good/bad/ugly about it?

This is the first I hear of it...

Bye, Wilfred.

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