> > On Wednesday 16 Jul 2008, Puneet Lakhina wrote: > > 1) Why dont services like Gmail understand PGP encrypted messages and > > decrypt them? Has this got something to do with export regulations on > > encyrption software? >
Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because the mail service does not have your PGP private key, which is > needed for decrypting PGP-encrypted messages. And if it did, the whole > point of PGP (end-user validation/privacy of messages) would be lost. Indeed. Plus google likes mining e-mail data, so in principle they wouldn't want to encourage storage of encrypted mail on their systems. That said, there are some plugins for firefox that let you encrypt and decrypt google mail in the browser. I am unsure if it gets past the issue of google's rather aggressive draft caching during composition though. > > My main reason for this newly accquired paranoia about email privacy > > is that I dont want my email admin to be reading my mails, even if > > they are to the mailing list. Is PGP the right thing for this? Maybe. Depends where the e-mail admin is in the pipeline. Maybe get a paid consultation from someone to look at the details if you are that worried. Else you'll get often get pointed to self-study such issues. Your issues may not just be solvable using pgp/gpg alone - you may need to have a good look at the processes and the reasoning behind it by a security consultant. But it depends how paranoid you are. PJ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
