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Encrypting Google Calendar With Firefox Extensions

Posted by timothy on from the show-as-unavailable dept.

mrcgran writes "IBM's Nathan Harrington has an interesting essay on using open-source tools to ensure privacy on Google Calendar: 'Today's Web applications provide many benefits for online storage, access, and collaboration. Although some applications offer encryption of user data, most do not. This article provides tools and code needed to add basic encryption support for user data in one of the most popular online calendar applications. Building on the incredible flexibility of Firefox extensions and the Gnu Privacy Guard, this article shows you how to store only encrypted event descriptions in Google's Calendar application, while displaying a plain text version to anyone with the appropriate decryption keys.'"

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  1. Re:And the ads? by saibot834 · · Score: 2, Funny

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    2. Re:afafasdf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Your confidence in that encryption method is intriguing, Mr. Urrz.

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  4. Known plain-text attacks? by spankymm · · Score: 4, Funny

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  6. Re:Been There, Done That by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

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