Hello, It is a good idea to keep in mind.
In the same domain (using some feature of firefox), does anybody have already had a look as XUL ? This example shows the possibilities : http://digg.com/tech_news/Awesome_firefox_XUL_example_ Jérémy David MENTRE wrote: > Hello, > > While reading lwn.net, I found this announcement of Freenigma service: > http://www.freenigma.com/index.html > > Freenigma is a way to encrypt emails in web mails. What is interesting > is that encryption is done on the client side, in the web browser > (with of course some help of a server). This is done with apparently a > pure Javascript Firefox extension, working on MacOS, Linux and > Windows. > >> From http://www.freenigma.com/frequentlyaskedquestions/index.html > """ > Does freenigma send my mails to the freenigma server for encryption? > > No. All mail is encrypted or decrypted directly in the webmail client > (i.e. directly in the browser). But how does that work?! For the > experts: when making an encryption request, the freenigma extension > sends nothing more than the list of recipient addresses to the > freenigma server. In response, it receives a random session key for > symmetric encryption within the client as well as an asymmetrically > encrypted session key for all the recipients. AES encryption is then > performed within the client using the unencrypted session key. Then, > the user script in the client combines the symmetrically encrypted > mail text and the asymmetrically encrypted session key to create the > OpenPGP binary format. > """ > > The Freenigma in the web browser (Firefox extension) code should be > available as Free Software, under GNU GPL licence. > > Certainly an architecture to look at in the future. > > Best wishes, > d. > > > _______________________________________________ > Demexp-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/demexp-dev _______________________________________________ Demexp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/demexp-dev
