HAK5 did a segment this year on Enigmail, which was mentioned in this email
chain already, and mailvelope (a Firefox/Chrome plugin for encypting GMAIL,
Yahoo, etc..).  In case anyone was interested in this, the tech segment
IMHO is really good.

http://hak5.org/episodes/hak5-1410



On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Oleg Laskin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Android has "APG" (Open PGP client) combined with K9 mail client (not
> coded by the same people) with which it integrates nicely.
> K9 works well with gmail as well.
>
> Oleg.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Guillaume Ross <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I think it's worth noting that GPGMail for Mac now works great in
>> Mountain Lion, and can already work with a minor tweak in Mavericks. They
>> had to do a big update to handle the sandboxing but now that it is done I
>> don't expect OS X upgrades to cause major issues with it for a while.
>>
>> The question is: Does anyone know of a good way to read PGP/GPG emails on
>> mobile?
>>
>> I remember there was a "web app/javascript based thing" for iOS that
>> wasn't really stable but I don't think it's still alive.
>>
>> What are your favorite PGP/GPG capable mail clients for Android and iOS?
>> There doesn't seem to be much for iOS, and I'm pretty sure the fact that
>> bundling GPL stuff in App Store apps is impossible is one of the reasons
>> why.
>>
>> Guillaume
>>
>> On 2013-06-25, at 4:23 PM, Oleg Laskin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I would never recommend anyone to have third-party hold the private key.
>> Privates should stay private. :)
>>
>> Have you looked at GPG ? http://www.gnupg.org/
>>
>> It has multi-platform support and is free.
>> There is a windows-based software using GPG called GPG4Win (
>> http://www.gpg4win.org/ ) that provides encryption, email software and
>> includes an Outlook plugin.
>> I've used it in the recent past and it seemed to do the job nicely.
>>
>> Oleg.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Mrs. Y. <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> 1. Free/cheap
>>>
>>> 2. The private key can't be held by a 3rd party that may have to produce
>>> it to the feds without notifying owner.
>>>
>>> 3. VERY secure. It's my understanding that the IBE implementation from
>>> Voltage, while functional and easy to use, has some security issues.
>>>
>>> current proposed solution: Thunderbird with Enigmail plugin via portable
>>> apps on Ironkey.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/25/13 4:01 PM, Oleg Laskin wrote:
>>> > I am curious as to requirements: Are they looking for end-to-end
>>> > encryption internally or with select clients or with everyone ?
>>> >
>>> > IBE seems to provide an option for an on-site gateway as well as
>>> > cloud-based one: "... Voltage SecureMail can be deployed on-premise, or
>>> > delivered as SaaS from the Voltage SecureMail Cloud™ ..."
>>> >
>>> > I have used Cisco's Ironport Mail gateway with encryption options in
>>> the
>>> > past: it works but I am not a fan.
>>> >
>>> > Symantec has a PGP-based solution. Requirements may help narrow it
>>> down.
>>> >
>>> > Oleg.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Mrs. Y
>>> > <[email protected]
>>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >     I'm in a position to recommend/suggest an encryption solution for
>>> email.
>>> >     The audience is *very* sensitive to privacy, but not very
>>> technical. IBE
>>> >     seems to solve this, but there are concerns with the PKG (private
>>> key
>>> >     generator) being in the cloudl. Thoughts?
>>> >
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