Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-10-12 Thread Total Privacy
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:43:41 +1000, glymr [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: yes, port 25 is blocked by most tor exit nodes. however, some webmail services (notably gmail) use different ports and are usable from tor. How about this; Using PGP or similar to make an encrypted file (txt or word or

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-10-12 Thread Tim McCormack
Total Privacy wrote: Using PGP or similar to make an encrypted file (txt or word or something). Then attach it to an ordinary webmail upload function, to send it over to the recipient that alreday are informed of my public key (and who´s key I have). All this whitout any need for

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-10-12 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
coderman wrote: On 10/12/06, Total Privacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Using PGP or similar to make an encrypted file (txt or word or something). Then attach it to an ordinary webmail upload function, to send it over to the recipient that alreday are informed of my public key (and who´s key

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-10-12 Thread patgus
Well that should work. PGP offers more of an illusion of security than most people realize. If someone knows whos email they want to read, and can find you online. All they have to do is hack into your computer, steal your keyfile, and install a keylogger to capture your password, and blam -

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-10-12 Thread patgus
Or of course, using the keylogger capture the email before it is encrypted. On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:29:39 -0500 patgus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well that should work. PGP offers more of an illusion of security than most people realize. If someone knows whos email they want to read, and can

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-20 Thread glymr
yes, port 25 is blocked by most tor exit nodes. however, some webmail services (notably gmail) use different ports and are usable from tor. Watson Ladd wrote: Total Privacy wrote: Thank you very much, that will do the trick I think, but still; have to get an email accout somewhere to put into

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-19 Thread Total Privacy
Thank you very much, that will do the trick I think, but still; have to get an email accout somewhere to put into it, to serv. Then to use my standard ISP supplied account would spoil the idea with anonymity and Tor usage, so the second trick will be to find an very best to use free account

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-19 Thread Watson Ladd
Total Privacy wrote: Thank you very much, that will do the trick I think, but still; have to get an email accout somewhere to put into it, to serv. Then to use my standard ISP supplied account would spoil the idea with anonymity and Tor usage, so the second trick will be to find an very

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-13 Thread Kelly Byrd
Hi, That wasn't the original quesiton. The asker specifically said web-based, without (in my mind) any of the tricks which would let you do browser side decryption. If we're writing applications to do this, decrypting on the client end isn't really all that hard or unheard of. But how is

Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-12 Thread Total Privacy
Hello or-talkers! I see your activity had gone up rapidly since last time. Probably good, I suppose. Well... what I´m up to right now, is looking for the very ultimate secure email system that´s fully compatible with Tor and don´t require cookies, javascript and other things that somehow

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-12 Thread Kelly Byrd
Well... what I´m up to right now, is looking for the very ultimate secure email system that´s fully compatible with Tor and don´t require cookies, javascript and other things that somehow may be insecure in any way and may expose (or collect) the real IP of the user. I don't understand. You

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-12 Thread Matej Kovacic
Hi, I don't understand. You want a web based mail service that stores the data encrypted on their server, but your browser decrypts it when viewing? Also, the browser can't use Java or Javascript to do this? How would this be possible? Why not use portable Thunderbird with GPG on an

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-12 Thread glymr
Just what exactly is insecure about being 100% vigilant about never accessing any random (eg hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail) mail server with tor? Well the main problem is in password recovery. Unfortunately most ... well any website ... has not got best practise cryptographic techniques for ensuring

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-12 Thread Anothony Georgeo
Kelly Byrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at mixminion. I've not managed to figure it out. I don't think of anonymity as being absolute. I personally don't think that letting your real ip address to various places now and then absolutely compromises you. The biggest problem of all comes