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User friendly PGP email [closed]
Does there exist cross-platform email handlers following these basic guidelines based on some very limited experience?
Generate new key at first startup, rather than asking the user if they have an ...
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Potential issues with Kim Dotcom's new proposed “encrypted webmail service”
Just spotted a Reddit thread about Kim Dotcom, of MegaUpload fame, planning to produce a secure webmail system that allows people to communicate securely, without the worry of having their messages ...
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Apart from the lack of native Oultook support, why should one prefer S/MIME over PGP/MIME for email?
From my (still quite subjective) point of view, GnuPG/PGP is superior to SSL (or more specifically, PGP/MIME over S/MIME; maybe in other areas SSL is the better choice), e.g. due to the support of ...
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GPG-encrypted mailing list and other approaches to safe communication
What is the best way to communicate privately on a mailing-list?
Requiring each member of the list to have the public key of each other member, and encrypt their messages with those, is cumbersome to ...
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Securely publishing GPG keys
This is probably a stupid question/vaguely defined, but I need to ask it anyway.
I want to put a public key for mail exchange on my website, such that even very powerful adversary with power to ...
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PGP: How is it possible for me to read a sent mail, encrypted by me with the recipient's public key?
I'm quite new to OpenPGP and am just starting to use it with Thunderbird.
When I encrypt a mail with a recipient's public key, using Thunderbird + Enigmail + OpenPGP, and send it, I can find the ...
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Is DKIM needed for emails encrypted with OpenPGP?
DKIM seems to prove that a message came from where it claims to be from. However, OpenPGP encrypts the entire email and signs it which obviously proves it also came from the person it says it did.
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How to refuse delivering emails that are not signed by trusted PGP keys?
I'm fed up by spam and would like to have an email address that will only deliver mails signed by users I declared trusted. Some kind of purgatory for mails the signatures of which are trustworthy by ...
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Whether PGP is send over MIME?
If I am using PGP to encrypt mails whther it is send as a MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) message, and S/MIME and PGP are used for providing email security.
When I send PGP message ...
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How do I encrypt the source and destination IP address, along with various parts of an email?
If the subject makes no sense to you, that's fine, it makes no sense to me.
I've been tasked with securing emails sent from some devices, and I'm looking for advice on intelligent questions to ask to ...
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Encrypting email for gmail
My friend who is an accountant was asking me what the best way to exchange documents with clients. He was trying to tell me that just sending via email was sufficient and I told him he was insane. I ...
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How does PGP differ from S/MIME?
Is S/MIME an abstracted system for general MIME type encryption, whereas PGP is more for email? Why would I want to choose one over the other, or can I use both at the same time?
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Does my PGP key really need to match the e-mail address for which I'll be using it?
In considering whether or not I want to join the big web o' trust and put my keys on a key server, I got to thinking about how it would affect my e-mail address' exposure. I generally try to keep my ...
