[SLL] Gmail, FireFox and GnuPG

[Lee Colleton]

This can be fixed by using the "basic HTML" presentation of Gmail for
composing sensitive messages.  It will only save drafts by direction.  You
could even encrypt your draft messages.

--Lee

On 6/4/07, Phil Hughes <fyl at a42.com> wrote:
>
> Carlie sent me this link:
> http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/1643208&from=rss
> It is an article about a firefox extension to make Gmail work with GnuPG
> local
> encryption.
>
> If you are already using gpg and just install the extension, it just
> works.
> That is, no configuration of anything.
>
> The only cavet I have seen is the non-encryption of the Gmail auto-save
> traffic. You can connect to Gmail with https so that solves the
> transmission
> part but it still means that a temporarily saved copy of the email could
> end
> up on a Google machine somewhere.
>
> Of course, if your main use is signing messages rather than encryption,
> this
> is not a problem.
>
>