Gmail Email Encryption in Firefox
Many services are tasty and different, which are more and more collect information about users: their hobbies, contact lists, business activity, lists of friends, receipt of funds, all about business. Sometimes the same Gmail may know more about a person than a person himself, sorry for the tautology. Of course, we think that there is nothing to hide, all honest people, although when the collected information numbers thousands of people, we are already starting to think.
Suppose there is an organization that has several people and uses Google Apps , which is connected to the corporate domain, for correspondence. Documents, passwords, birthdays, schedules, communication history via Google Talk , search history, all plankton activities, almost any action is stored in the depths of Google . Why is Google so active? He simply knows how to predict events, using people as computing power and source of information. Well, okay Google - we have already come to terms; in the Russian underground, the hacking of competitors' electronic mailboxes is quite common, in just 10 bucks , I can break any mailbox in the .ru zone. I have already come across how many times that solid organizations like get email boxes in the free zones svetochka.ufzt [dot] mail.ru (address fictional), and the password is the birthday. And somehow they massively forgot about encryption of electronic correspondence, about electronic signatures. Even in state structures, the state is generally deplorable, all computers are overgrown with viruses, and e-mail of state structures is used for sending Trojans and spam, registering with classmates and in contact, and updates to databases and copies of orders of documents, etc come to these boxes. P. If a similar box is hacked, I can find out almost everything about the organization and the pack of guards will not help, because mail is not encrypted and not protected by anything.
Now about the encryption of Gmail email in Firefox , the paranoia above is like an introduction.
So, we have Gmail mailbox to which it is necessary to fasten encryption and Firefox browser as the main one.
1. Download and install for Windows - gpg4win , install for Linux - GnuPG (Ubuntu sudo apt-get install gnupg gpa ), for MacOS - Mac GPG
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2. Download and install the extension to Firefox - FireGPG .
3. The settings wizard appears. Enter the path to PGP, in this case:
C: \ Program Files \ GNU \ GnuPG \ gpg2.exe
4. Enter the name, mailbox, password, key expiration date, encryption type.
5. Set default parameters.
Now go to the mailbox and write yourself a letter. Click send, a window appears with a choice of key, after it you will need to enter your Gmail password.
Received one letter, open and a window will appear with a password.
Letter successfully decrypted.
It remains only to copy the key and transfer it in any safe way.
UPD: For more security, you need to turn off auto-save in Gmail:
Firefox Tools -> FirePGP -> Gmail ->
- disable autosave
- encrypt responses to encrypted emails
UPD2:
About configuring FireGPG under FreeBSD: freebsd-firegpg
nzeraf.com
Suppose there is an organization that has several people and uses Google Apps , which is connected to the corporate domain, for correspondence. Documents, passwords, birthdays, schedules, communication history via Google Talk , search history, all plankton activities, almost any action is stored in the depths of Google . Why is Google so active? He simply knows how to predict events, using people as computing power and source of information. Well, okay Google - we have already come to terms; in the Russian underground, the hacking of competitors' electronic mailboxes is quite common, in just 10 bucks , I can break any mailbox in the .ru zone. I have already come across how many times that solid organizations like get email boxes in the free zones svetochka.ufzt [dot] mail.ru (address fictional), and the password is the birthday. And somehow they massively forgot about encryption of electronic correspondence, about electronic signatures. Even in state structures, the state is generally deplorable, all computers are overgrown with viruses, and e-mail of state structures is used for sending Trojans and spam, registering with classmates and in contact, and updates to databases and copies of orders of documents, etc come to these boxes. P. If a similar box is hacked, I can find out almost everything about the organization and the pack of guards will not help, because mail is not encrypted and not protected by anything.
Now about the encryption of Gmail email in Firefox , the paranoia above is like an introduction.
So, we have Gmail mailbox to which it is necessary to fasten encryption and Firefox browser as the main one.
1. Download and install for Windows - gpg4win , install for Linux - GnuPG (Ubuntu sudo apt-get install gnupg gpa ), for MacOS - Mac GPG
')
2. Download and install the extension to Firefox - FireGPG .
3. The settings wizard appears. Enter the path to PGP, in this case:
C: \ Program Files \ GNU \ GnuPG \ gpg2.exe
4. Enter the name, mailbox, password, key expiration date, encryption type.
5. Set default parameters.
Now go to the mailbox and write yourself a letter. Click send, a window appears with a choice of key, after it you will need to enter your Gmail password.
Received one letter, open and a window will appear with a password.
Letter successfully decrypted.
It remains only to copy the key and transfer it in any safe way.
UPD: For more security, you need to turn off auto-save in Gmail:
Firefox Tools -> FirePGP -> Gmail ->
- disable autosave
- encrypt responses to encrypted emails
UPD2:
About configuring FireGPG under FreeBSD: freebsd-firegpg
nzeraf.com
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/87493/
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