{"id":518,"date":"2019-08-16T12:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=518"},"modified":"2019-08-16T12:41:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:41:54","slug":"encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/16\/encryption\/","title":{"rendered":"Encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of discussion lately (again) on the need for encrypted Email or Messaging, and the pros and cons of various services, from WhatsApp to Telegram, from RCS to SMS.<\/p>\n<p>I am not fully on the post-privacy bandwagon, but for sure people are aware that by using a third party service for Email or Messaging their messages can be read, aren&#8217;t they? We don&#8217;t call root super-user for no reason.<\/p>\n<p>In the last century the Network Working Group wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ietf.org\/rfc\/rfc1855.txt\">RFC 1855<\/a> &#8220;Netiquette Guidelines&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2.1.1 For mail:<\/p>\n<p>Unless you are using an encryption device (hardware or software), you should assume that mail on the Internet is not secure.\u00a0 Never\u00a0put in a mail message anything you would not put on a postcard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s today as true as it was then &#8211; unless you own both sides of the encryption, don&#8217;t send anything through the Aether that you don&#8217;t want other people to see!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/13th_Annual_Wichita_Postcard_Club_Show_Wichita_Postcard_Club_NBY_17466.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"13th_Annual_Wichita_Postcard_Club_Show,_Wichita_Postcard_Club_(NBY_17466)\" src=\"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/13th_Annual_Wichita_Postcard_Club_Show_Wichita_Postcard_Club_NBY_17466_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"13th_Annual_Wichita_Postcard_Club_Show,_Wichita_Postcard_Club_(NBY_17466)\" width=\"673\" height=\"464\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:13th_Annual_Wichita_Postcard_Club_Show,_Wichita_Postcard_Club_(NBY_17466).jpg\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:13th_Annual_Wichita_Postcard_Club_Show,_Wichita_Postcard_Club_(NBY_17466).jpg<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of discussion lately (again) on the need for encrypted Email or Messaging, and the pros and cons of various services, from WhatsApp to Telegram, from RCS to SMS. I am not fully on the post-privacy bandwagon, but for sure people are aware that by using a third party service for Email &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/16\/encryption\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Encryption<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-socialmedia","category-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-8m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}