“ wrapped in tinfoil” by mrwynd is licensed under CC BY 2. The only remaining difficulty is persuading the other person that it is necessary for them to set it up too and that you are not a tin-foil hat kind of guy. Hopefully these browser plugins have demonstrated just how easy it actually is to get started on it. Even though you may live by the mantra “ I have nothing to hide”, your privacy is still paramount, and nobody has the right to read your private communications without legal authorization. It probably seems to most people that email encryption is a pain in the neck, therefore it just gets skipped. Or attach a pre-arranged note like how spies know to trust one another when they meet – “ the crows fly west for the winter….yes, but not in summer”). If the other person perhaps does not realize the encrypted message is from you, you can add a message establishing your bona fides. Wikipedia has some good background information on it here.Īnother great feature is the ability to add an unencrypted “intro” to the email. PGP is not free – it is proprietary software owned by the Symantec Corporation, but in the late 1990’s, a free open-source version was created, called OpenPGP. PGP stands for “ Pretty Good Privacy” and was developed by a man called Phil Zimmermann in 1991. Head over to Sign in and click on the ‘Accounts’ button in the top right of the homepage. So if you are totally wedded to your Gmail, and can’t bear to part with it, what is the alternative? OpenPGP Click Boomerang followed by the Uninstall button. Paying for Protonmail gives you some nice extra features, but it still isn’t exactly there yet in my opinion. The Protonmail team is working very hard and fast (they have even introduced a Virtual Private Network app for their paying customers), but compared to say Gmail, Protonmail has many glaring drawbacks which may irk some and prevent many from moving their email over 100%. The downside though (and there always is one with everything in life) is that Protonmail is still very much a work in progress. Secondly, each email is heavily encrypted by PGP keys (more on that later), and third, you need two passwords to gain access – a regular password and then an inbox decryption password. One, it is based in Switzerland and has no servers in the US, so it is outside the legal jurisdiction of the Patriot Act. In this scenario, the ideal solution is to move to Protonmail.
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