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Why isn't there an end-to-end encryption standard for email so that we can get rid of fax machines? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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That's the reason we have to still use fax machines right?

I know there are ways to do encryption like PGP on your message directly or I think email sent over TLS? But that isn't the default right and that's why I can't send a picture of my license to the insurance company directly over email?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

But it's government laws and regulation that is behind. It's not so much of a technical problem (although E2EE email standard would be nice!).

No. Government had nothing to do with it, these are separate issues. WhatsApp was never approved by the government, yet it's widely used and it has E2E. OTOH, German government accepts email for lots of things. I know of some public sectors requiring email with PGP even.

The actual problem is that both email and PGP are really bad. This on my opinion describes it very well: https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted.html