<div class="gmail_quote"><div>There's a GPG plugin for firefox (oddly enough "firegpg") that ties in to the browser, and of course there's a gmail plugin for gpg as well. As Brian mentioned "encryption" is not-easily-done-correctly. With some of these helper apps using good quality encryption tools becomes easier. (I still prefer the command line mostly though). :)<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:14:30AM -0800, Rod Roark wrote:<br>
> Hey I just wanted to share an easy general-purpose method for<br>
> email (and other) encryption that I ran across:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.fourmilab.ch/javascrypt/" target="_blank">http://www.fourmilab.ch/javascrypt/</a><br>
><br>
> "Easy" means you don't have to install any special software, and<br>
> you don't have to deal with the complexities of public key<br>
> cryptography. It's a nice solution when there are one or two<br>
> other people with whom you want to ensure email privacy, and<br>
> they are not very computer-literate.<br>
><br>
> Very few people use encryption these days, and I'm sure that is<br>
> mostly about the difficulty and inconvenience of doing so.<br>
><br>
> Especially with the popularity of email services controlled by<br>
> large corporations, I think it behooves all of us to assert our<br>
> right to privacy. Rights that are not exercised have a way of<br>
> disappearing.<br>
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