crashsystems.net » Email Encryption guide http://crashsystems.net Home of Crashsystems LLC, and a blog about miscellaneous things Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:28:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc 2006-2007 crashsystems@gmail.com (Douglass Clem) crashsystems@gmail.com (Douglass Clem) posts 1440 http://crashsystems.net/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg crashsystems.net » Email Encryption guide http://crashsystems.net 144 144 A blog about technology, world travel, spirituality, and random combinations of these themes. Douglass Clem Douglass Clem crashsystems@gmail.com no no Simple email encryption with FireGPG http://crashsystems.net/2009/03/email-encryption-guide-2/ http://crashsystems.net/2009/03/email-encryption-guide-2/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:26:32 +0000 Douglass Clem http://crashsystems.net/?p=184 Privacy was once the default for most conversations between individuals. While the Internet has become an extremely useful tool for facilitating conversation, it has also done away with almost all of the privacy that was once inherent in communication. This has profound societal consequences that few have even begun to contemplate. Furthermore, the spread of unencrypted email means that it is nearly trivial for various repressive governments to spy on those who differ from the government sanctioned political and religious norms.

Though the technology was once closely guarded by the United States government as a form of export controlled munitions, encryption is now freely available to the masses. However, much of the technology is not easily understandable by the masses. With this in mind, I wrote Simple email encryption with FireGPG as a cross platform guide for email encryption, with a target audience of ordinary, non-technical Internet users.

Simple email encryption with FireGPG is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license, meaning you are free to copy it, share it, modify and translate it, as long as you do so under the terms of the license. If you do make a derivative or translation, please tell me about it so that I can link to it from the project page.

I plan on periodically updating the guide as changes are made in the FireGPG extension. If you have suggestions for improvement, please leave a comment on this page or contact me. You can subscribe to this RSS feed for updates.

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