Because the government isn't interested in prosecuting Antifa. Proton Mail is not secure. It's secure enough for most business applications, but I guarantee if the FBI asks them for data on you they will get it.
Any server based application is not going to be able to give you a guarantee of security. Very easy for them to intercept any encryption key generated at the time of communication if they wanted to. Need something with no server that uses a pre-shared key you setup with the other person ahead of time.
For example, a message app that uses SMS, but you and the other person setup a preshared key ahead of time, very long, maybe 64 to 256 character key, to encrypt\decrypt the messages when sent\received. The message looks like gibberish to everyone except the sender and receiver. If the cell carrier tried to read your messages it would just be a bunch of random characters because they would never have had access the the encryption key.
Isn't that what a Diffie–Hellman key exchange takes care of?
There's an algorithm so we each generate a public and private key on our own devices. We each send each other our public keys, but our private keys remain a secret. Using the algorithm my public key and your private key generate the same code as your public key and my private key. Then we use that code to encrypt our communications.
If someone intercepts both of our public keys, but doesn't have either of our private keys, then they can't decode the messages.
This.
The enemy is not stupid. They use very good tools to protect their identities.
A good example would be just because my enemy uses desert-pattern camo, does not mean that I also shouldn't use desert-pattern camo.
Exactly. If it works to hide commies it works to hide patriots.
Same for proton mail
Help! Are you saying it's not secure? Trying to divorce the G
Proton mail is secure. Antifa uses it, and that’s how it relates to the thread
Because the government isn't interested in prosecuting Antifa. Proton Mail is not secure. It's secure enough for most business applications, but I guarantee if the FBI asks them for data on you they will get it.
Any server based application is not going to be able to give you a guarantee of security. Very easy for them to intercept any encryption key generated at the time of communication if they wanted to. Need something with no server that uses a pre-shared key you setup with the other person ahead of time.
For example, a message app that uses SMS, but you and the other person setup a preshared key ahead of time, very long, maybe 64 to 256 character key, to encrypt\decrypt the messages when sent\received. The message looks like gibberish to everyone except the sender and receiver. If the cell carrier tried to read your messages it would just be a bunch of random characters because they would never have had access the the encryption key.
Pede who sounds like they know what they are talking about:
(1) Signal - Yea or Nay (2) Proton Mail - Yea or Nay
If not, then what?
Isn't that what a Diffie–Hellman key exchange takes care of?
There's an algorithm so we each generate a public and private key on our own devices. We each send each other our public keys, but our private keys remain a secret. Using the algorithm my public key and your private key generate the same code as your public key and my private key. Then we use that code to encrypt our communications.
If someone intercepts both of our public keys, but doesn't have either of our private keys, then they can't decode the messages.
Also good for those risky porn sites
Proton is an NSA honeypot
Alternative?
PGP or bust
Back when some people were calling for mask laws because of Antifa, I made a similar argument. We might need them ourselves.
Most states already had anti-mask laws stemming from the 1920s due to the second iteration of the KKK, D politicians just chose not to enforce them.
Well said