On 6/3/2014 18:42, [email protected] wrote: >> Message du 04/06/14 00:29 >> De : "rysiek" >> >> OHAI, >> >> Dnia środa, 4 czerwca 2014 00:19:43 piszesz: >>>> not sure what to think about this one: >>>> http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/making-end-to-end-encrypt >>>> ion-easier-to.html >>>> >>>> Technical specs: >>>> https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/ >>> >>> If you want to land on a watch-list and maybe no-fly list, you just install >>> it in your Chrome. Because as far as we can tell Google is in bed with the >>> NSA and so the proprietary browser may just flag you to the system and done >>> you are, or may forward all your messages in the clear. Who knows? Which is >>> worst? >>> >>> That's why there is not foocking way to trust proprietary software. >>> Companies are forced to act like criminals on behalf of the government. >>> There is no loyalty, respect, ethics, honesty or even business which the US >>> government won't try to trample upon. >>> >>> If one wants to go crypto, he goes all the way with OpenBSD, Tails, Kali, >>> Gentoo, Firefox, Midori or even old and good Lynx, but not Chrome. >>> >>> lol >> >> A heck with it, why not -- I'll play the Google's advocate here. >> >> So, the extension itself will be FLOSS, as I understand, so the extension >> itself will be audit-able (inb4 openssl, truecrypt). And as I understand it >> *will* be installable in Chromium too. >> >> Is that an acceptable combination? With such an assumption ("use Chromium, >> Luke!"), does End-to-End seem to make sense? Or are there other problems we >> need to look into and be wary of? >> > > With chromium, End-to-End can start looking respectable. But even then > Chromium is cranked by a much smaller team than Firefox and surely suffers > from the same problems OpenSSL has faced for most of its existence. >
I went ahead and tried it out. One click to make a key and it integrates into gmail. It's not going to replace PGP for anyone who already has a key pair, but making end-to-end encryption one-click-easy is a shoe in the door for getting the public to start caring about its own privacy (and hence ours).
