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Etienne Perot
Personal blog · perot.mesecurityprogramming
Etienne Perot's personal blog at perot.me covers security and programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a how-to on encrypting incoming email by running your own mailserver, as one commenter suggests for keeping third parties from snooping on Gmail messages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
A slightly better, but still lacking solution is to run your own mailserver and encrypt all incoming messages, something like this https://perot.me/encrypt-specific-incoming-emails-using-dove... simple enough for any HN reader to handle. It of course still doesn't keep out the scary folks, as they'll just tap the network beforehand, but it does raise the bar quite a bit from other 3rd parties snooping. Combine with…
Comment linking /encrypt-specific-incoming-emails-using-dovecot-and-sieve
on “Automatically encrypt your Gmail account”Submitted Ubuntu privacy blunder over Amazon ads continues as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monkeysphere: Using PGP for SSH verification/authentication (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion