email privacy
I realize internet privacy issues have been discussed before... I've always felt relatively immune because I do most my surfing with Firefox, I don't sign in to Google, and I don't belong to Facebook....
Forum Discussion
fj12ryder wrote:
"The Bat" email client has easily used PGP if you want to send secure email. I've never used it so I don't know how secure it actually is, but basically you write your email, click on the PGP in "The Bat", and away you go. Of course the person on the other end needs to be able to decode the message, but it seems to be fairly easy.
PGP stands for “Pretty Good Privacy” and it is.
You’ve hit on the rub though. The people on both ends have to first securely exchange keys. That’s a problem when you aren’t face to face with each other. X509 certificates accomplish the same thing but you have to pay a third party to make sure everybody is who they claim to be.
