How good is Skiff mail in terms of privacy and security?

Duplicate of: [image] Skiff Mail (Email Provider) Tool Suggestions Hi there, We have done a lot of work to improve our services over the past few months to meet the requirements laid out to be listed on privacyguides for Email Services. We believe we have resolved the pr…

It is not a service that we can currently recommend. See this discussion for more details: [image] Skiff mail · privacyguides · Discussion #119 Skiff recently announced there privacy orientated mail service what might be a good addition to the privacy guides website. The source code fo…

Skiff Privacy suite is nice, It is not decentralized unless you choose the “IPFS” option or use Skiff servers. But everything is end-to-end encrypted, the only thing it is wrong with it is it’s based in the united states of america. And it hasn’t been up for a long time, It been up since 2020-2022. …

Doesn’t currently offer MTA-STS , DANE or CAA so I wouldn’t personally use it. Also looks like they have weak ciphers enabled. Regardless of claims about E2EE, all header metadata such as To:, From: Date:, Message-ID: is not encrypted and has to be protected by the TLS connection between providers.

[image] Daniel Gray: Doesn’t currently offer MTA-STS , DANE or CAA so I wouldn’t personally use it. These things are now supported. Just an update on this we’ve done a more in depth review [image] Skiff Mail (Email Provider) hammer_and_wrenchTool Suggestions …

Clone of dngray’s previous link, and also I don’t think we’ll ever trust Skiff again (skiff more like whiff gottem :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: !!!)

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