Mailvelop

Many people use web based mail programs. I wanted to see if there was an easy to use encryption program for working with these programs. I found a convenient and very easy to use open source tool called Mailvelop. This program works with common mail programs such as Yahoo, Gmail, and Outlook. Other mail programs can be added. It is available as an add on to the Firefox or Chrome browsers. It works as a front end to GPG. When composing an email an icon appears in the writing window. When clicked a box appears that allows a message to be created. This box functions as a sandbox to separate the text from the mail program. Click a lock to encode. A box appears to chose a key. Select the key and it encrypts the message. Hit transfer and the message is sent to the email program. There is also an option that can be selected to allow encryption to be done in the email editor. This is easier but less secure since drafts can be saved unencrypted.

Decrypting is also very easy. Mailvelop detects when an encrypted message is sent. A lock appears. Click on the lock. A sandbox appears. Enter the pass phrase and the message appears in the sand box. There is also an option to cache the password but this is not recommend.

A lock icon in the browser corner allows confirmation of Mailvelop, and key creation and management. It has some limits. It does not encrypted attachments. Nor is it able to do signatures. Other programs will have to be used for that.

http://www.mailvelope.com

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