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GPGMail 2 is finally here

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Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here

#21
The last version of GPGTools I looked at had the irritating habit of always installing its own copy of GPG into /usr/local and not letting me use my own version (e.g., from Homebrew). Is this still the case in version 2?

It would be far cleaner if it was more self-contained (e.g., included GPG inside its installation bundle), and then let the user pick an alternative OpenPGP installation in the preferences.

Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here

#22
For those of us who have never heard of this software, it would be great if somewhere prominent on the webpage it said what GPGMail actually is. Instead the most prominent thing is how many bug fixes and sleepless nights this mystery software required.

Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here

#23
post #19

My company's internal mail goes through gmail so I decided after recent news to setup GPGmail and s/mime. I identified a couple of usability issues, which where fixed. I'd say all in all its very good. Regardless if you believe or care about the NSA issues, simply the idea of routing clear text email through mail exchanges, and advertisers should give you enough reason to follow the few steps it requires to generate…

you can revoke your S/MIME key from a CA (you just need to remember the revocation password you gave them)

S/MIME is also built in to (almost) every thick MUA. it works on iOS out of the box, it works in outlook, thunderbird, mail.app and mutt out of the box.

once you generate a S/MIME cert through a big provider, none of the other big providers will give you an e-mail cert for the email issued by the other big provider (probably, still trusting them to do the right thing).

Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here

#24

Email encryption is a good start! Personally, I think, the user is best served with the "darknet" [0] approach. It's unfortunate that term "darknet" leads a big chunk of the general public to believe it's something "dirty", "illegal" or otherwise undesirable or even dangerous, which doesn't help its cause. So help the Internet out and spread the word: [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_%28file_sharing%29 RetroS…

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here

#25
post #19

My company's internal mail goes through gmail so I decided after recent news to setup GPGmail and s/mime. I identified a couple of usability issues, which where fixed. I'd say all in all its very good. Regardless if you believe or care about the NSA issues, simply the idea of routing clear text email through mail exchanges, and advertisers should give you enough reason to follow the few steps it requires to generate…

Just two nitpicks: You can sign email with GPG even if others aren’t using it (of course it will be of little value to them until they, possibly at a later date, verified your key), and it is supported on Android by K-9, I believe.

Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here

#26
This is just MacOS nonsense. It plays in the Valley and at the mall, and nowhere else. The only reason it is on the front page of Hacker News is that we can't see outside our own event horizon.

Poke me when a popular web email service implements GPG.

Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here

#27
post #19

My company's internal mail goes through gmail so I decided after recent news to setup GPGmail and s/mime. I identified a couple of usability issues, which where fixed. I'd say all in all its very good. Regardless if you believe or care about the NSA issues, simply the idea of routing clear text email through mail exchanges, and advertisers should give you enough reason to follow the few steps it requires to generate…

Just two nitpicks: You can sign email with GPG even if others aren’t using it (of course it will be of little value to them until they, possibly at a later date, verified your key), and it is supported on Android by K-9, I believe.

Yes you can, but my point was that this is of no utility with GPG. Whereas with s/mime anyone can confirm that your email was signed (with many email clients), so there is value to using s/mime prior to all your contacts also using it.

Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here

#28
post #23
post #19

My company's internal mail goes through gmail so I decided after recent news to setup GPGmail and s/mime. I identified a couple of usability issues, which where fixed. I'd say all in all its very good. Regardless if you believe or care about the NSA issues, simply the idea of routing clear text email through mail exchanges, and advertisers should give you enough reason to follow the few steps it requires to generate…

you can revoke your S/MIME key from a CA (you just need to remember the revocation password you gave them) S/MIME is also built in to (almost) every thick MUA. it works on iOS out of the box, it works in outlook, thunderbird, mail.app and mutt out of the box. once you generate a S/MIME cert through a big provider, none of the other big providers will give you an e-mail cert for the email issued by the other big provi…

No, you cannot revoke your s/mime cert. Your CA can. That is a big difference.

Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here

#29
post #19

My company's internal mail goes through gmail so I decided after recent news to setup GPGmail and s/mime. I identified a couple of usability issues, which where fixed. I'd say all in all its very good. Regardless if you believe or care about the NSA issues, simply the idea of routing clear text email through mail exchanges, and advertisers should give you enough reason to follow the few steps it requires to generate…

Just two nitpicks: You can sign email with GPG even if others aren’t using it (of course it will be of little value to them until they, possibly at a later date, verified your key), and it is supported on Android by K-9, I believe.

Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1181/

Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here

#30

This is just MacOS nonsense. It plays in the Valley and at the mall, and nowhere else. The only reason it is on the front page of Hacker News is that we can't see outside our own event horizon. Poke me when a popular web email service implements GPG.

Pardon us for being interested in something that a lot of us can benefit in? I didn't see a sign when coming in that said everything on the front page needs to be world-changing news.
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