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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:I wouldn't think google would like this by mulvane · · Score: 0, Troll

    Google is in bed with NSA and has tools to decrypt all these emails on the fly. Might surprise you when you get child porn adverts when all your child porn email was encrypted to I bet.

  2. There goes some of Slashdot's quality. by Paperweight · · Score: 0, Troll

    Where are the editors? It looks like firehose-type blurbs are starting to make it to the front page...

    Oh wait, it's CmdrTaco. Never mind.

  3. Re:And for the chat by Threni · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Deniability? Isn't this one of the main things encryption is supposed to make difficult?

    No. You're thinking of `downloading` - one of the main things any source-forge style system is supposed to make difficult. Under NO circumstances should you offer a link which you click once to receive and executable. You MUST have to register with your email address and agree to terms and conditions and then try and find the executable - not the source, resource files, the forum etc - but the program you just signed up for the sole reason of downloading.

    Deniability is handy for denying that what the pigs have found on your computer is an encrypted file. It's supposed to look like any piece of random data used by encryption systems.