Flashes of Panic

Last year I wrote about encrypted email and wondered when (or how) the free web-based email services would offer the ability to encrypt (and decrypt) email as a feature.

Since then, I’ve fiddled with Gmail a bit myself, and discovered that if one uses Gmail as a POP server, one has access to the same encryption/decryption tools available to the POP client, like Enigmail for Thunderbird, or GPGMail for Apple’s Mail.app, both of which use GPG.

Now, it turns out that someone has produced a Firefox extension which allows for using S/MIME certificates with Gmail’s web interface. (Brent linked some sites explaining how to get and use S/MIME certificates several months ago.)

I think this should be sufficient to answer the privacy concerns about Gmail, myself. Don’t want Google reading your email? Encrypt it.

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