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Protecting Your Mails With GnuPG

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Re: Protecting Your Mails With GnuPG

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GnuPG is pretty good. I've just recently started using the EasyPG package in Emacs to interface with GnuPG. Encrypting files couldn't be easier. Files are encrypted at saving and decrypted at loading automatically. Make backing up sensitive files to Dropbox much easier.

"Gnupg is pretty good"??? Wtf? Pretty good? You have complaints with gpg?

I think it's sort of ironic since PGP was pretty good privacy.

Re: Protecting Your Mails With GnuPG

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't suppose you're working on a Gmail/Chrome extension? Because I've been looking for one of those for years.

http://getfiregpg.org/s/home There was some effort in just such a project, though it seems to have died out.

There is a fork in github https://github.com/firegpg/firegpg

From readme, https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/FireGPG_su...

Re: Protecting Your Mails With GnuPG

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Ever since I stopped using Thunderbird and Enigmail, I felt like I was missing something. So today, I finally started to develop my own solution - can't have them read our mails, now can we?

I don't suppose you're working on a Gmail/Chrome extension? Because I've been looking for one of those for years.

Why yes, I am. That's the point of this submission ^^

Re: Protecting Your Mails With GnuPG

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Ever since I stopped using Thunderbird and Enigmail, I felt like I was missing something. So today, I finally started to develop my own solution - can't have them read our mails, now can we?

Just out of curiosity, why did you stop using Thunderbird+Enigmail?

Using multiple devices (laptop with several OS, iPad, eeePC, ..), I really needed IMAP to keep them in sync, so I switched to gmail. Then, I started to use the web interface more and more, until I never really used Thunderbird anymore - I guess I like gmail's interface better.

Re: Protecting Your Mails With GnuPG

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Cool, but remember that Gmail automatically saves, to your drafts folder, everything you enter into a new email message.

Is there a workaround for this? Until then, one should stick to native email clients/Thunderbird for confidential comms.

Yes. Write the text of the mail somewhere else, then use the (not yet implemented, I'll do it tonight) option "paste clipboard encrypted".

Re: Protecting Your Mails With GnuPG

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't suppose you're working on a Gmail/Chrome extension? Because I've been looking for one of those for years.

Why yes, I am. That's the point of this submission ^^

Ah, I didn't realize you were the article submitter. Looking forward to it. And god help you keeping up with Gmail's constant changing interface.
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