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Encrypting email.
Name: MicrosoftMAN Date: November 6, 2004 at 08:18:11 Pacific OS: Windows/*NIX CPU/Ram: N/A
Comment:
I currenntly use an email account with my ISP through thier web interface. Notice how easy it could be for someone to read my emails using many methods, like a packet sniffer for example, I would like to know how I could encrypt my email messages. It doesn't have to be all, just the ones that I really want to be encrypted. I use Outlook Express on Windows and Xirman Evolution on Linux. So I would need to know an encryption method for atleast OE. Also, is there maybe an email service with a web interface that perhaps two people who want their emails encrypted between each other could sign up for and just use those emails to send encrypted mail to each other instead of using two different emails like @cox.net and @hotmail.com?
Name: StuartS Date: November 6, 2004 at 10:20:23 Pacific
Reply:
Its not possible to encrypt E-mails in a web interface unless you prepare the emails off-line and copy and paste the encrypted text into the web interface.
Using OE or any other Email client, emails can be encrypted using PGP (Pretty Good Privacy).
There are many ways of doing it. Just put PGP + Email into Google and take your pick.
http://www.pgpi.org/ for a free download of PGP.
Stuart
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Response Number 2
Name: MicrosoftMAN Date: November 6, 2004 at 10:36:12 Pacific
Reply:
I tried P2P but it was asking me for a license so I tried to get one but then it was telling me the freeware version didn't do plugin support for OE or Outlook so I wasn't able to send an ecrypted email.
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