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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. I wouldn't think google would like this by kentmartin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I thought their business model worked on the idea that they could datamine all your email and (among other things) offer you targeted email based on the content therein... this'll screw with that idea...

    "BUY jjhHDJEy6786ERLKLXhdfeprERIOUPewoenOIhgshgrgeyrew now for a low price on Ebay.co.uk"

  2. Say 'no' to gaim-encryption, use OTR by Kadin2048 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    OTR is miles better than the gaim-encryption/pidgin-encrypt. Honestly, I don't understand why they won't just kill it and move to OTR for good; it's a fundamentally better security model for something transient like instant messages.

    Particularly since having two mutually-incompatible encryption packages is a pretty crummy state of affairs; it just means that the few users who do use encryption, are going to be fragmented between incompatible systems.

    OTR probably has the greatest market penetration of any IM-encryption system, outside of corporate clients (Sametime, I think, uses encryption by default, although I don't think it's end-to-end, only client-server, because there they want the ability to intercept on the server), because it's built into the fairly popular OS X Adium client. So there's already quite a few users out there who have software that supports it. If only some of the other IM clients would start building it in by default, rather than making it an optional addon, I think it would quickly gain traction as a de facto standard. (And that would be a good thing, since it's a good system and open source.)

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  3. Won't AJAX textboxes kill this? by biftek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I haven't used gmail that much, but I was under the impression that it saved drafts of what's in the composition textbox at intervals.

    That data would be all cleartext wouldn't it? Seems a tad risky to me.