<quote who="Holly Bostick"> > Nick Smith wrote: >> is there a way to send encrypted email? so that if the person >> on >> the revieving end of the email doesnt have the key they cant >> view the email? >> >> > > This question has to go on my "oh, for Pete's sake" list, > because if you > haven't noticed how many people on this very list sign (a lesser > form of > encryption/authentication) their mails, it can only be because > you don't > have any mail encryption software installed yourself. If you > did, you > wouldn't have to ask this question ;-) . >
i did notice that, but if they are encrypted how come i can see them? ive never needed encryption before and asked since i have a need now. > In any case, what you need is GNUPG (gpg); most, if not all > email > clients I am familiar with have some facility to encrypt and > decrypt > mails using it as a backend. > > If you use Thunderbird, you'd have to install the > Enigmime/Enigmail > extension to encrypt/decrypt mail; iIrc, other clients such as > Mutt or > sylpheed-claws I believe need nothing extra as long as GPG is > installed, > probably you'd have to make sure you used the proper USE flags > when > installing Evolution, but Evo may have the facility natively (if > it > finds GPG is installed). > thats fine but i dont only send emails to linux users, as odd as that sounds, i would assume thier clients have to have the software as well to decrypt the email? actually im the only one on my address that uses linux, (and im not on my address list) so is it cross-platform compaitible? also does it work with webmail aka squirrelmail? sorry im kinda dumb on the topic but never really needed it until now and was wondering if it was hard to set up. i need something that will only let the person with the decryption key read the email, i really dont know what im looking for, that gpg (thought it was pgp) will work for my box, but what do i do about the people i want to communicate with encrypted? i cant convert them all to linux ;-) believe me ive tried. > Hope this helps, it started to, thanks. > Holly > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > Nick -- [email protected] mailing list
