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 ca

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 - no

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 (a

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-10-12 Thread coderman
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 I have). All this

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 Thunder

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 so

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

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

2006-09-19 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 for

Re[2]: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-13 Thread Arrakistor
Yes, i've already created Torbird. There is a beta available on the Torpark forums. I am finishing up the extension to mate it to Torpark so when you click on an email link in Torpark it opens Torbird, and vice versa. Regards, Arrakistor Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 4:46:01 PM, you wrote: > p

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-13 Thread glymr
portable thunderbird with tor - i believe someone has bundled them now, but you can use torpark and set thunderbird to use the proxy and always launch it after tor and close it before torpark, and install enigmail into the portable thunderbird. i've done this, it's pretty easy really Kelly Byrd wr

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.

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-12 Thread glymr
www.fastmail.fm provides a web based email service which does not depend on you giving true backup email addresses (possibly one could set up two, i'm not sure i never tried) nor does the client use javascript, it's all plain old (x)html Matej Kovacic wrote: > Hi, > >> That wasn't the original qu

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-12 Thread Matej Kovacic
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

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 come

Re: Tor-compatible secure email systems

2006-09-12 Thread Kelly Byrd
> 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 from mail sending. You > can't se

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 Kelly Byrd
> Why not use portable Thunderbird with GPG on an TrueCrypt encrypted USB > stick via Tor using POP3s/IMAPs and TLS/SSL'ed SMTP? > 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: 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 TrueC

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

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 ma