Keeping E-mail Private (Revisited)

About a year ago, I wrote a post titled “Keeping E-mail Private”.  Thinking back over the last five months, my advice seems woefully inadequate.  To give the matter of private communications a more proper treatment, I’m going to write a series of...

Encrypting Your Messages With OpenPGP.js

Terrible mashup of OpenPGP.js logo and source code by the author (because nothing says “Where’s the source?” like a bad logo.) Last time I wrote, I showed you how to use Braintree.js to encrypt form values. I even built a contact form to do it. It occurred to me that...

Trying PGP

Some months ago, I wrote about using PGP and S/MIME to keep e-mail private. As much as I love the idea of keeping my e-mail private, I rarely use PGP or S/MIME. This is because the people with whom I communicate don’t use PGP or S/MIME. To improve this situation, I’ve...

Keeping E‐mail Private

I can’t think of anyone who would argue that keeping e‐mail private is of little import or an easy task. I use e‐mail as storage for personal information, for authentication, and for communicating when I want the communications to be private. Such private information...