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Complexity  ·  3659 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Microsoft just exposed email's ugliest secret | The Verge

At some point, people must step away from thinking of email encryption as an end-to-end or user-to-user solution and simply treat the OS as a decryption interface, a window onto encrypted lumps of noise which can network itself to other encrypted lumps of noise.

Part of installing an OS would involve generating a key pair rather than having to understand what that means or implementing it in a separate way.

Implementations like TAILS already approach this but they still require a modicum of understanding.