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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

Time moved backwards

Posted by micele - 30/01/08 at 06:01:41 pm

Having a look at certain log files, sometimes brings strange things forward. It seems that today especially one of my mail services has some interesting problems with the time wrap.

Jan 30 17:13:33: Time just moved backwards by 303 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I’ll just kill myself now.

Well… maybe you got some problems with the black hole called NTP!?
Sometimes I really would like some politicians out there to have this kind of understanding.

- micele