Comments on: How to: Keep your e-correspondence private

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:08:00 +0000

Thanks kjcole…figures I mention it on the LUG list and you pop up to prove me wrong ;)

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:08:00 +0000

Thanks kjcole…figures I mention it on the LUG list and you pop up to prove me wrong ;)

By: Kevin Cole

Kevin Cole — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:03:00 +0000

Both mutt and pine (and others I'm sure) make it fairly easy. Pine often comes with a bash script or three to do the dirty work:

/usr/bin/pinegpg-install

/usr/bin/pinegpg -> /usr/bin/pinepgpgpg-install

The first alters your ~/.pinerc file adding in the necessary magic. I'm not even certain that the second one is still used…

For Mutt, on one of my older systems I had to add:

# Import GNU Privacy Guard/Pretty Good Privacy (GPG/PGP) handlers

source /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.1/gpg.rc

to ~/.muttrc. (Ubuntu places gpg.rc in /etc/Muttrc.d/ which leads me to suspect that perhaps it's included automatically. I've never used it from that system.)

By: Kevin Cole

Kevin Cole — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:03:00 +0000

Both mutt and pine (and others I’m sure) make it fairly easy. Pine often comes with a bash script or three to do the dirty work:

/usr/bin/pinegpg-install /usr/bin/pinegpg -> /usr/bin/pinepgpgpg-install

The first alters your ~/.pinerc file adding in the necessary magic. I’m not even certain that the second one is still used…

For Mutt, on one of my older systems I had to add:

# Import GNU Privacy Guard/Pretty Good Privacy (GPG/PGP) handlers source /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.1/gpg.rc

to ~/.muttrc. (Ubuntu places gpg.rc in /etc/Muttrc.d/ which leads me to suspect that perhaps it’s included automatically. I’ve never used it from that system.)

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:04:00 +0000

The "truly paranoid" will go beyond encrypting their messages with PGP. They will also ensure that their mail client communicates with their mail server over an encrypted link, usually TLS, to be sure a listener cannot see the mail headers. They will also ensure they are using a secure email service such as Sub Rosa from novo-ordo.com so their email cannot be stolen by hacking into the server (another layer of encryption there) or subpoenaed by the US government (hosted outside their jurisdiction).

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:04:00 +0000

The “truly paranoid” will go beyond encrypting their messages with PGP. They will also ensure that their mail client communicates with their mail server over an encrypted link, usually TLS, to be sure a listener cannot see the mail headers. They will also ensure they are using a secure email service such as Sub Rosa from novo-ordo.com so their email cannot be stolen by hacking into the server (another layer of encryption there) or subpoenaed by the US government (hosted outside their jurisdiction).

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:10:00 +0000

That's the only reason to use signing. Encryption certainly has other uses.

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:10:00 +0000

That’s the only reason to use signing. Encryption certainly has other uses.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:05:00 +0000

I used to use PGP all the time but stopped mostly because everyone I email 1) doesn't use it and 2) was freaked by all the random text at the bottom of the e-mail.

Other than proving an e-mail came from me, is there really any other good reason to use PGP?

-Adam

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:05:00 +0000

I used to use PGP all the time but stopped mostly because everyone I email 1) doesn’t use it and 2) was freaked by all the random text at the bottom of the e-mail.

Other than proving an e-mail came from me, is there really any other good reason to use PGP?

-Adam

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:58:00 +0000

Really? I honestly didn't look into mutt because I figure if you use mutt, you're already a command line nut anyway. Web browsers and mail clients are the two things where I really prefer GUI over CLI.

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:58:00 +0000

Really? I honestly didn’t look into mutt because I figure if you use mutt, you’re already a command line nut anyway. Web browsers and mail clients are the two things where I really prefer GUI over CLI.