On Sat Nov 30 13:00:45 CET 2013, Thomas Bruederli wrote:

> But in terms of architecture, a purely client-side
> encryption/decryption is the preferred and most secure way.

OK, this depends on which side of the cryptosystem you assume to be more
trustworthy: the server or your browser runtime. Especially javascript
has some major drawbacks when it comes to crypto (just think XSS). See
eg. here for a discussion:
http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

A S/MIME browser plugin would definitely be the way to go, security-wise.

Unfortunately, this is a nightmare maintenance-wise ... and also would
take considerably more time (which is, as always, the limiting factor).

So I'd rather stick with a server-side approach, even if it would not
make it into an official release.

Kind regards
/markus

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