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by JGailor 1487 days ago
The problem with these articles is that they never go into exactly what parts of the message and metadata is actually encrypted. It can't all be encrypted (or at least I'm not aware of how that would work in practice), so it would be useful to know that, for instance, while the message is encrypted, the sender and receiver metadata is not, which certainly wouldn't make information about who is communicating with who private.
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> The problem with these articles is that they never go into exactly what parts of the message and metadata is actually encrypted.

It is just plain olde pgp - no better, no worse. Emails sent, the body is encrypted, everything else not.

Inbox stored at rest - all encrypted.