On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:40:58AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:22:04PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are there any-web based email providers that allow you to sign or encrypt > > emails? > > http://www.hushmail.com > > > Would it still require that the computer you use to access the internet > > have a copy of your private key, or could this be stored by the > > web-based email provider? > > The latter. The web site has a certificate and you use HTTPS to access > them. Similar to using SSH to log in to a remote server and use the > standard PGP tools there. > Hushmail was exactly what I was thinking of. But now this has just whet my appetite. Is it possible to go one step further?
What I would like is: 1. To be able to read / send encrypted mail from anywhere on the internet. --> Hushmail allows this 2. To optionally be able to load in public keys of people who are not necessarily Hushmail users and be able to encrypt mail to them also. --> I don't think hushmail allows you to encrypt to "external" public keys 3. To optionally be able to download my mail to my own pc at home and be able to read it say on Mutt. --> this would mean that the key pair would have to be the same on my computer as on the providers site. And would require the provider to offer IMAP or POP3 retrieval similar to what http://www.gmx.net/ allows you to do. But this provider doesn't provide facilities for encryption online. This would make the service really useful and allow me to seemless send mail from my computer at home or via the providers site from an internet cafe when I am away from home. Now is this possible? I can't find anyway to do all this with my searches thus far. Cheers. Mark.
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