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The future of Thunderbird

The future of Thunderbird

Posted Jul 13, 2012 10:56 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: The future of Thunderbird by Jandar
Parent article: The future of Thunderbird

Not quite true, the PGP can be done in the browser, so making it still secure with webmail. Pretty sure there are, or at least have been, plugins for popular browsers to let you encrypt textfields.


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The future of Thunderbird

Posted Jul 14, 2012 5:07 UTC (Sat) by jackb (subscriber, #41909) [Link]

Pretty sure there are, or at least have been, plugins for popular browsers to let you encrypt textfields.

There's still a plugin called FireGPG floating around, occasionally updated by volunteers after its creator abandoned the project.

In addition I think the GPG helper apps on most operating systems allow you to encrypt the contents of the clipboard so you can always compost the text somewhere else, encrypt it, and paste it into the browser.

The future of Thunderbird

Posted Jul 14, 2012 11:11 UTC (Sat) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

If only there was a technology that permitted people to run things in their browsers, and store data there without sending it to the web server!

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