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CryptoHeaven Available For Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the but-think-of-the-terrorists dept.

Mark0 writes "In an article on MacCentral we read 'CryptoHeaven beefs up Mac OS X support'. This is great news for the Mac OS X community as there aren't many competing applications for the new platform. CryptoHeaven seems to be leading the secure email sector and also provides instant messaging and file storage!" You can never have too much security! Well, OK, you can, but CryptoHeaven looks kinda neat.

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  1. An excellent product by Blind+Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wow... Cryptoheaven sure is great. Now I don't have to mess around with OS X Mail client, or use bad Mac ports of Windows IM products.
    I believe there's a huge market for a product like this.
    On another note, doing some research, I found that there were several interesting ways of achieving secure e-mail connections in OS X.

  2. Another option... by Quicksilver31337 · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those that are happy with the Apple Mail client then their is another popular crypto solution to protect your privacy. PGP, you know it, it is available in the form of GPG (the GNU Privacy Guard) and there is currently a rather well developed set of tools for Mac OS X (Here.) Including the GPG base, and addons to Mail.app so u can easily encrypt and decrypt your mail using the wide PGP standard.

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    1. Re:Another option... by tbmaddux · · Score: 4, Informative
      GPG covers the email. For files, there is also PuzzlePalace which provides a GUI front-end to OpenSSL (included in MacOS X). $15 shareware but it won't nag you. While you're there, get a copy of BrickHouse and turn on your firewall.

      Or you can just use Apple's Disk Copy to create AES-encrypted and password-protected disk volumes. Just be sure not to put the password in your Keychain (it's selected to do that by default when it prompts for a password at mount). It's free and already installed with MacOS X.

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  3. I've had it for a week now... by arson1 · · Score: 4, Informative

    And I've been pleasantly suprised by the nice set of features, and the speed... especially considering the fact that it is a Java application.

    File transfer/encryption is a one click process, my only complaint is that I only get 2MB of storage for free... you can pay for more though

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