On Jan 13, 2020, at 6:03 PM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: > I poked around for a bit and found that everyone was talking about using > GPGTools. They want $24 for their plugin for Mail (or allow compiling from > source for free, as long as the user can go into source and find and strip > the code for the payment). There were people who were using it without the > plugin, but then it looked like a real hack.
I paid for it. I want to use PGP/GPG so I can control my own keys. I’ve always been a little leery of the companies that give or even sell encryption key pairs because in the beginning they do have the keys and there’s nothing to stop them from keeping them. With the GPG setup, I have complete control of my keys. > Do you have something you recommend which would make it (relatively) > painless? Most of what I say, the NSA can read, and then sell to Google in a > private-public partnership. Oh wait, is it the other way around? The most painless method to do secure messaging is probably Apple’s Messages. But, you need some sort of Apple device at each end. In my family, those of us with Apple devices use Messages. With lesser devices, we use GPG. We do this for several reasons: we do transfer financial information, particularly since some elderly family members have recently died and left money that must be handled; and, we value our privacy. L^2 ---- Lee Larson [email protected]
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