[MlMt] Warn sending encrypted mail about unencrypted subject

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Mon Jul 14 07:44:27 EDT 2014


On 13 Jul 2014, at 9:37, Bram Heerink wrote:

> The subject of an encrypted mail is not encrypted. A subject could 
> disclose information.

Yes, this is basically an email-encryption-standard problem (both S/MIME 
and OpenPGP).

> Would it be nice to warn users that are trying to send encrypted 
> e-mail about this with a "don't warn me anymore" option?

I'm not sure how many encryption users are unaware of this limitation 
(especially MailMate users). I'll note the idea, but do any other email 
clients warn about this?

-- 
Benny


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