How I Secure Email
A friend of mine have recently been exploring ways to keep email safe and secure. He lives in a country where freedom isn’t necessarily present so we have been looking at ways to keep email secure from computer to computer, especially since Yahoo and other companies seem very willing to turn information over to less than friendly governments.
We previously tried Hushmail but I don’t like the interface and it seemed to clunky to have a totally encrypted solution and have a dedicated email address just for encrypted emails. That’s why we went to something a little better and I think this solution is pretty good.
We are using Thunderbird with the Enigmail extension. This means that we are able to encrypt every email before we send it out and only decrypt it once it gets back here. To make things better, we use gmail since they allow IMAP mail for free. It seems to be a great solution that is working well.
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Rick on
Sun, 17th Aug 2008 5:08 pm
Enigmail is good but don’t forget to use an encrypted link (https) or your envelop information will be sent in the clear. Who you are sending email to is almost as revealing as what you are saying.
You can look at http://www.novo-ordo.com for a lot more information about secure email. Message encryption is only one aspect of it.
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