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Enabling Mail's built-in encryption
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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I thought people might be interested in this cool article detailing how to use Apple Mail's built-in digital signing and encryption. The process isn't super-easy, but it's easy enough, and free.
And pressing that encryption button rocks. 
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Originally posted by smeger:
I thought people might be interested in this cool article detailing how to use Apple Mail's built-in digital signing and encryption. The process isn't super-easy, but it's easy enough, and free.
And pressing that encryption button rocks.
I've been signing and encrypting all of my mail via Panther's mail app for several months now. Great article, same one I read to get my digital signature working.
JVB
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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What's the difference between this and using GPG? It seems to be about the same thing. If I have already set up GPG, should I set this up too?
-- Jason
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*bump*
Anyone? What's the difference?
-- Jason
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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I think it pretty much is GPG, but it's completely integrated into Mail with nice little buttons and everything.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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No, this is a different technology than PGP. With the thawte certificates, you get a certificate assigned by a 3rd party. With PGP you generate a keypair yourself and publish the public key.
I looked into the Thawte certificates, but I wasn't comfortable with the "personally identifying" part of the process. I'm not giving my SSN or Driver's License no. out to get a certificate when I can use open source software (GPG) to accomplish the same goal.
With a few downloads from http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/ you can have GPG integrated in mail.app with the same ease of use, maybe even better. "Nice little buttons" included. I have my company CFO and President both set up on Panther/mail.app/GPG so they can encrypt email on financial topics, and they actually use it.
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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C.J., so you are saying if I already set up GPG (which was easy BTW) that I don't need to do this. It's just two ways to accomplish the same thing.
Sorry for being so dense, and thanks for the help.
-- Jason
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Originally posted by jasong:
C.J., so you are saying if I already set up GPG (which was easy BTW) that I don't need to do this. It's just two ways to accomplish the same thing.
Sorry for being so dense, and thanks for the help.
-- Jason
All you should need is the mail plugin from that page. You'll be able to do sign your mail with your GPG key, and it nicely integrates downloading other people's keys so you can encrypt "for your eyes only" mail with their public keys.
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