This appears to be a weak attempt to spin as positive the news that Google have abandoned the end-to-end project... mysteriously posted when everyone is busy processing the SHA1 and Cloudbleed news. From the post:
E2EMail is not a Google product, it’s now a fully community-driven open source project, to which passionate security engineers from across the industry have already contributed.
Contrast that with their Github repo, which has seen no commits since August, as well as pull requests and issues that nobody has responded to.
I would dearly love to be proven wrong; if there has been ongoing work from "passionate security engineers" somewhere else and I'm just missing it, hopefully someone can post some details here?
(edit: Disclosure, I work on Mailpile, which is arguably a "competitor" to both e2e and GMail. But I did genuinely want to see this project succeed and improve e-mail security.)
There was a pull request merged a few minutes ago, by someone whose username suggests that they are also the first named author on the Google blog post.
HerraBRE|9 years ago
E2EMail is not a Google product, it’s now a fully community-driven open source project, to which passionate security engineers from across the industry have already contributed.
Contrast that with their Github repo, which has seen no commits since August, as well as pull requests and issues that nobody has responded to.
I would dearly love to be proven wrong; if there has been ongoing work from "passionate security engineers" somewhere else and I'm just missing it, hopefully someone can post some details here?
(edit: Disclosure, I work on Mailpile, which is arguably a "competitor" to both e2e and GMail. But I did genuinely want to see this project succeed and improve e-mail security.)
dragonwriter|9 years ago