FireGPG: web-based email en-, decrypting & signing
Posted by micele - 06/02/08 at 04:02:43 pm
I often run into the problem of receiving encrypted mails but not be able to read it because I only have webmail access at this moment. Installing PGP plugins for webmailer like SquirrelMail always looked like a bad idea to me. Especially SquirrelMail hasn’t been the most secure peace of software out there and a place surrounded by all this php-web-foobar security leaks isn’t the best place for a private key. However there is another possibility of *crypting, signing and verifiying emails using webmail interfaces.
The FireFox extension FireGPG is a simple way to do all this pretty things. FireGPG just extends the FireFox context menu so that you can easily mark text inside textboxes and de- or encrypt it by mouseclick. Unfortunately GnuPG has to be installed.
It’s still a beta release but I suggest it’s stable enough to give it a try in secure enviroments. So get it!
Furthermore maybe this is a good choice for the Mac OS X 10.5 user. Somewhere I read that GPGMail doesn’t work with the toothless Leopard so far?! 
Dec 9, 2007 - GPGMail & 10.5 (Leopard)
GPGMail doesn’t work yet on 10.5, and can’t work as-is. I’m currently working on the port, and published a beta version.
- micele
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