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    Functioning of Palo Alto Networks “URL Filtering” Censor System

    The University of Fribourg (Switzerland) is censoring its Internet in very different categories, including "extremism" and "adult". It was found out that sites like www.martinluthe…

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    Look and Feel: p≡p mail encryption and easy contact verification

    There are two videos showing how the pretty Easy privacy (p≡p) protocols for automatized email encryption & easy contact verification look & feel like: p≡p for Android (beta): http…

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    Comment #13000992

    Here you have an overview: https://pep.foundation/pep-software/index.html

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    Comment #12827283

    Well, first of all: does it work now with Enigmail v1.9.5? That would be good sign already. We will have to try ...

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    Comment #12827225

    Messages from or to a contact can also show red, I forgot to mention, if the user decides that the key pair used by that contact is not trustworthy. That can make sense if you see …

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    Comment #12827200

    That should be possible, because IMHO Postbox (as a fork) also works with Enigmail.

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    Comment #12827020

    In p≡p there's both, automatic key management and a KeySync protocol (yet being tested, not activated already) to sync private key material across the devices you want to read the …

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    Comment #12824560

    Yes, there's a Privacy Status in p≡p, there being four different states: no color (mostly today: insufficient crypto, weak crypto, unknown), yellow/orange for accepted, transparent…

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    Comment #12823782

    Yes, the public key is just attached to the outgoing messages and automatically imported by p≡p-capable software. That's kind of a TOFU (Trust On First Use) approach, but you can v…

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    Tell HN: Enigmail 2.0 to automatically encrypt e-mails

    It's four days ago the pEp-Development branch was merged into the master source code repository of Enigmail, meaning the pretty Easy privacy (p≡p) technology is now at Enigmail's c…

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    Comment #12823041

    Keep a close eye at the pretty Easy Privacy (p≡p) project. It provides an engine (written in C99) and adapters for the most important environments, in order to automatize key manag…

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