“We cannot rely on laws to protect us. We must use mathematics.”
The ability to have a private conversation via email is vital. Yet due to the nature of both email and the underlying technology, most emails are far from private. Privacy can be achieved via encryption, but the truly secure forms of encryption (aka PGP and GPG) have not really been designed with the non-geek in mind.
For quite some time now, I’ve been thinking of writing a simple yet comprehensive guide to email security. Now that I have a bit of time on my hands, it is probably a good time to do so. I have started a wiki for this purpose, at crashsystems.wik.is, and I am looking for volunteers. This guide will be focused on using the PGP standard of encryption via the Open Source GnuPG project, plus a few extra tools. I want this guide to be useful for users of Windows, Mac and Linux, so I need volunteers who use these operation systems.
I intend upon expanding this project, and recruiting help from geeks across the world. However, I want to develop a core group of people, and some initial content, before I start advertising the project. So please check it out, sign up for an account on the project’s wiki, and start giving input.
