FireGPG, Finally!
by Zef Hemel- Published:April 3rd, 2007
- Comments:6 Comments
- Category:Cranky
Look at this, doesn’t it look secure?
Personally, whenever I see a mention of signing or encrypting a mail message I’m like, whatever… Whenever I get an e-mail with a message digest to proof it hasn’t been changed by some evil third party I am like, pff, arrogant prick, who do you think you are assuming somebody even cares enough about you to change your e-mails? Do you honestly think I’m going to actually check this message hash or if this is done automatically that I’m going to take your mail more seriously? I don’t think so.
And honestly, if you would send business critical PGP encrypted contracts and stuff, would you really send it from Gmail? Come on.
Thankfully I hardly ever receive these “signed” e-mail messages, and if I do it’s usually from some nerd security fanatic, the kind that puts public keys on their business card to pick up girls (good luck with that).
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Yes, if you must, you can do that with PGP, safely. PGP makes the unsafe safe.
I do agree though that excessive use of PGP is terribly annoying.
PGP encryption supposedly indeed makes mailing safe even throuh a plain-text connection to Gmail in the US. Assuming, of course, that the receiving party treats the mail with the same care as the sending party did… which will rarely be the case. So, indeed, this stuff i nearly always pointless.
I didn’t mean it wouldn’t be safe sending encrypted e-mail from Gmail, I meant it wouldn’t look that professional (myawesomecompany@gmail.com?).
Well. with google apps you can have your own domain for Gmail, it would hide the unprofessionalism.
That’s a good point.
True. But not only companies need to sign stuff. When I want to order a new domain I just have to send my webhoster a signed email, for instance.