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Encrypt and Sign Gmail messages with FireGPG

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can-you-spot-the-secret-message-in-this-dept-line dept.

Linux.com (Same owners as Slashdot) has a story up about FireGPG and says "Gmail may be an excellent Web-based email application, but there is no easy way to use it with privacy tools like GnuPG. The FireGPG extension for Firefox is designed to solve this problem. It integrates nicely into Gmail's interface and allows you...
Encrypt and sign Gmail messages with FireGPG

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  1. Re:Nerds with something to hide by fluch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is just that I don't want anybody to intrude my privacy. Do you close the envelope of a regular snail-mail letter? If so, do YOU have something to hide??

  2. Re:Nerds with something to hide by toleraen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I generally close the envelope of snail mail so the mail doesn't fall out.

    I use security envelopes to obscure the contents of my mail. You probably would want to use that as an analogy instead.

  3. Re:Nerds with something to hide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So if you "always" sign your messages, then you can tell off anyone you want as long as you don't sign it. Brilliant!

  4. Re:The Fascination with Encryption by MyOtherUIDis3digits · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Man, I miss the days when a post like that would have made me laugh and I would have called you a loon...

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    Ignore anything I said above, I actually agree with everything you believe - mod accordingly.