applications.linux.com — 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 to sign and encrypt not only email messages but also text snippets from any Web page.
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stimpackJun 5, 2007
I use it to sign my messages out of sheer bloody-mindedness, noone I know uses GPG so its wasted, but goddamn I want to sign my stuff!.
cha0sfbJun 5, 2007
Yeah the average Joe could care less about this... But it's a good option to have nonetheless ^^
vvaduvaJun 5, 2007
"With this extension, your mails are on google's servers, unencrypted."Yes, but not if you type the message in another app such as notepad and then paste it into GMail to encrypt it immediately. I still see some usefulness for this, even though it doesn't seem to support PGP keys.
kitsune818Jun 5, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://pgp.mit.edu/">http://pgp.mit.edu/</a> ?
tkn00bJun 5, 2007
you can use this with windows. you need to download a windows binary of GnuPGP, and then point FireGPG to the directory you installed it to. Next, you will have to generate a key pair using the "gpg.exe --gen-key" command.
Closed AccountJun 5, 2007
with tools like this, where encryption is done easily, using a popular mail package, more and more people will become more comfortable with concepts of encryption. sometime in the future digital signing with or without encryption (even possibly coordinated with biometrics) will be the standard.
3domJun 5, 2007
"As the CIA funded google at the start..."After a quick bit of research it seems this rumour is quite easily traced back to an interview with an ex-CIA agent with Alex Jones of prisonplanet.com, a website devoted to promoting conspiracy theories.If you have any other sources I'd quite like to see them.