On Mon, Apr 07 2014, Jeremy Nickurak <not-much at trk.nickurak.ca> wrote:
> Nonetheess, if you can tell from the index that a given message contains
> the words "hotel" "wine" "wife" "secret" and "rendezvous", you can infer a
> *lot* about the contents of encrypted contents of the message.

Of course.  Given that the content of the message will be stored
unencrypted in the db, indexing encrypted messages is potentially a foot
gun.  If we were to enable a feature like this, it would definitely be a
user-beware situation.  I don't see any way around that.

jamie.
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