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  • Safester, anyone?

    From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to All on Thu Jan 27 09:19:00 2022
    * Originally: PUBLIC_KEYS
    * Xposted: FSX_CRY, ARK_CYBER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



    --- OpenXP 5.0.51
    * Origin: Key ID = 0x5789589B (21:4/106.21)
  • From nristen@21:1/161 to Ogg on Thu Feb 3 13:56:45 2022
    Anyone familiar with Safester? A friend of mine just wrote to me..

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

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


    If they don't allow you to use your own keys that would indicate that you
    have to use their keys which sounds like they would be able to decrypt your encrypted content.

    Without knowing more, I would stay clear of them.

    nristen (Karl Harris)
    bbs: bbs.theharrisclan.net SSH/2222
    gemini: gemini.ctrl-c.club/~nristen

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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to nristen on Mon Feb 7 00:12:00 2022
    Hello nristen!

    ** On Thursday 03.02.22 - 13:56, nristen wrote to Ogg:

    Anyone familiar with Safester? [...]

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


    If they don't allow you to use your own keys that would
    indicate that you have to use their keys which sounds like
    they would be able to decrypt your encrypted content.

    Without knowing more, I would stay clear of them.

    I'm losing patience with Safester. [1] A couple of times it has
    taken almost a minute before the program succeeds with a login.
    [2] Sometimes attachments (no larger than 300k) seemed to take
    over a minute to process!

    Safester is definitely not ready for prime time.

    --- OpenXP 5.0.51
    * Origin: Key ID = 0x5789589B (21:4/106.21)