On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 04:30 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Nick Smith wrote:
> > also does it work with
> >> webmail aka squirrelmail?
> 
> Not a clue. It might, but I have no idea how it's handled (i.e., how any 
> given webmail client or server allows for the insertion of both the 
> public key of the sender, and the private key of the receiver).
> 
> Besides which, a lot of webmail is not overwhelmingly secure (Hotmail, 
> for example, gets hacked fairly regularly); I'm not sure I'd want my 
> encrypted mails there anyway. Webmail from your ISP which allows you to 
> pre-read your mail from their servers might be a different story. It 
> really depends on the service, I would think, so I'd check it out on a 
> case-by-case basis.

far as I can tell. no webmail service provides the GPG option.

One reason I don't really use webmail :-D

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