forwardemail.net VS publications

Thanks for your feedback. We've updated our home page at https://forwardemail.net and added a dedicated link/section in our FAQ for "What is Forward Email" at https://forwardemail.net/faq#what-is-forward-email.

Commit: https://github.com/forwardemail/forwardemail.net/commit/5942...

Here is the actual code in the back-end where we use your PGP public key:

Source code for PGP encryption for storage when you're connected (we only use your password in-memory, and never write it to disk on our side) @ https://github.com/forwardemail/forwardemail.net/blob/562a52...

Outbound email automatically checks for PGP key in case you didn't include the recipients (we use WKD): https://github.com/forwardemail/forwardemail.net/blob/562a52...

Your individual mailbox is a SQLite database file and is encrypted using ChaCha20-Poly1305 as well.

You can literally fix this right now with plain ole nodejs. https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v16.x/docs/api/packages.html#subpath-imports - it’s not very well documented. It’s called sub path imports. See a great working example in this repo! (Also use forward email!!) - https://github.com/forwardemail/forwardemail.net - it works in commonjs and esmodules.

Disagree, their reputation is tied to their audit quality.

But I'm pretty sure in this case the scope was bad. Like they coukd have had audits on "Do I use OpenSSL well?" and then misrepresent that all their privacy claims were audited.

Now it seems like Skiff conveniently didn't allow Trail of Bits to publish their reports, they are usually here: https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/tree/master/revi...

Disclaimer, I have used Trail of Bits service in the past (and 2 other auditors for an security campaign on a blockchain, cryptography + networking product).

Link to the report: https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/blob/master/revi...

They seem to not have analysed client-side of PIP itself, but I suppose there isn't anything you could say that isn't already obvious to everyone.

Audits are mentioned on the Trail of Bits website https://github.com/trailofbits/publications and the Skiff one https://skiff.com/transparency. Skiff has been externally audited 4 times.

Here's the URL https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/blob/master/reviews/SimpleXChat.pdf It was in the article I have already linked.

MYSO Finance Security Assesment by Trail of Bits

Trail of Bits

Hi! I'm Skiff's CEO. We've had 3 security audits, including 2 from Trail of Bits - one of the best security auditing firms in the world https://github.com/trailofbits/publications. Skiff Mail is also open-source: https://github.com/skiff-org/skiff-mail as is our whitepaper https://skiff.com/whitepaper We've also been in the news quite a bit: https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/17/23075804/skiff-mail-email-privacy, https://www.wsj.com/articles/encryption-bans-what-is-this-russia-hacking-online-privacy-security-data-signal-whatsapp-emails-protection-11675436242 (I wrote this with our team!), https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/30/russia-skiff-block/, and more, even though we're only a year old. We collect no personally identifying information - not even IP addresses used - no backup emails, phones, etc. - no advertising, and we end-to-end encrypt BOTH email subject + body and don't have any metadata (time sent/received an exception). What can we do to share more of this with more people? We're a younger company but it's so important this is made public.

Hi! I'm Skiff's CEO. We've had 3 security audits, including 2 from Trail of Bits - likely the best security auditing firm in the world https://github.com/trailofbits/publications. Skiff Mail is also open-source: https://github.com/skiff-org/skiff-mail as is our whitepaper https://skiff.com/whitepaper