Mavericks is not yet supported it seems - "Incompatible Plug-ins Disabled [..] Contact the makers of these plug-ins for versions that are compatible with Mail 7.0 and Message 7.0."
GPGMail 2 is finally here
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Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here
#32I thought they just announced a new version recently? Is this a new version again, or just a new website?
All versions before this were beta. This is the stable version of GPGMail 2 with 77 bugs fixed from the last beta, so you should update.
Thanks -- it turns out the the update checker on my version wasn't working (for whatever reason), so I mistakenly thought I had the latest version.
Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here
#33My 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…
Any recommended CAs for S/MIME for personal users? And is it possibly to transparently use both, e.g. sign all outgoing mail with S/MIME by default, but also encrypt with, say, GPG if you happen to have that contact's public key?
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#34For 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.
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#35Mavericks is not yet supported it seems - "Incompatible Plug-ins Disabled [..] Contact the makers of these plug-ins for versions that are compatible with Mail 7.0 and Message 7.0."
There's a special hack version out for Mavericks:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/gpgtools/GPGMail-Mavericks-P2-hack....
And you need this fix for the latest DP 4: http://support.gpgtools.org/discussions/everything/9888-mave...
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#36I am a bit surprised by the use of the modified Apple Mail.app icon. Are they connected to Apple somehow? edit: just curious, sorry :/
Not connected to Apple, just a very old icon which was never really updated. Might happen in the future though, to avoid legal issues
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#37Mavericks is not yet supported it seems - "Incompatible Plug-ins Disabled [..] Contact the makers of these plug-ins for versions that are compatible with Mail 7.0 and Message 7.0."
There's a special hack version out for Mavericks: https://s3.amazonaws.com/gpgtools/GPGMail-Mavericks-P2-hack.... And you need this fix for the latest DP 4: http://support.gpgtools.org/discussions/everything/9888-mave...
They just shipped support for Mountain Lion, which was released one year ago. I hope there is not as big a delay for Mavericks. I understand that it's a volunteer project, but a kickstarter could surely help them muster the $100 for a Mac developer subscription and access to the developer previews of 10.9.
Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here
#38My 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…
Any recommended CAs for S/MIME for personal users? And is it possibly to transparently use both, e.g. sign all outgoing mail with S/MIME by default, but also encrypt with, say, GPG if you happen to have that contact's public key?
GPGMail is nicely integrated into Mail.app. It plays well with s/mime, so you can have both installed, and use either one that is appropriate.
For easy steps on how to do this see here:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/10/secure-your-e-mail-unde....
You can get a free cert from COMODO:
http://www.comodo.com/home/email-security/free-email-certifi....
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#39This 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.
Hushmail implements GPG, though perhaps it does not pass your definition of 'popular'.
Any current implementation of GPG by _web email_ is probably insecure as it would rely on JavaScript cryptography. Perhaps when the W3C passes the browser cryptography draft, and browsers start adding that in, we might see this. But the economics aren't aligned, because popular web email services want to see what you read and write, so they're not particularly motivated to give you strong encryption.
Re: GPGMail 2 is finally here
#40My 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…
Any recommended CAs for S/MIME for personal users? And is it possibly to transparently use both, e.g. sign all outgoing mail with S/MIME by default, but also encrypt with, say, GPG if you happen to have that contact's public key?
I use StartCom https://cert.startcom.org/