![]() Maintaining some of these options is no different than weekly patching for any desktop. I have to update those filters from time to time, but not as often as I would have thought. Nextcloud is locked down for only family IPs. I looked at it and ran a server for a few weeks with some friends before deciding to switch to Nextcloud and Wormhole transfers. It has files, bulletin boards and a few custom abilities based on those 3. Most of these things aren't hard and don't need systems with much CPU/RAM. Whether it is an option or not depends on skills, 1 person's internet connection, the ability to remain patched, and desire to be secure. Amazon EC2 has a 1 yr free tier for a micro-instance that would run 1 of these things for a family. This stuff can be hosted for $5/month in almost any VPS provider too. It is amazing what a raspberry-pi can accomplish. I'm big on not using 3rd-party services, so take all this with that set of glasses. Something like RetroShare or Nextcloud talk or even wormhole just to exchange text files. Have you looked at non-email messaging systems for secured family communications? Last edited by Ralph L October 27th, 2020 at 11:21 PM. Update: My son got flowcrypt working on his windows chrome browser, so we are exchanging encrypted documents now. A next step will be to try to install it on chrome in my son's windows computer. In contrast, Mailvelope is supposed to work on a variety of mail servers. Still another problem with flowcrypt is that it works only on gmail. Also, Flowcrypt, while it can decrypt received pgp/mime email, cannot encrypt to this newer standard. However, Tbird/ enigmail has this same problem, so I guess I can't complain too much. One of my tests had 20 files in it, and dragging and dropping them one by one into my file system was certainly tedious. It has no way to bulk (batch) save multiple decrypted files to the users normal disk storage. There are some things I don't like about flowcrypt. I guess I'll just have to trust flowcrypt on this, since I know of no way to verify it. And flowcrypt must not forward the user's private keys to the gmail server. Judging from the dynamic status indicators it seems to do this. It must also download received email into the user computer before decrypting it. To do end to end encryption Flowcrypt, when originating email, must encrypt it on the user's computer before transmitting it to the gmail server. I also was successful in doing the reverse-sending encrypted and signed email (including multiple attachments) from Firefox/ flowcrypt and receiving and decrypting them in Tbird/ Enigmail.įlowcrypt claims end-to-end encryption and I tend to believe them (unlike Zoom, who it's rumored decrypts data in the Zoom server making it vulnerable to theft). I was successful in encrypting and signing messages (including multiple attachments) with Thunderbird (enigmail), sending them through my mediacom email server, and receiving and decrypting them on my gmail server using Firefox/ Flowcrypt. (I have not tried installing it on chrome yet.) I may also try mailvelope if I get a chance. I picked flowcrypt and installed as an add-on to Firefox. The two most promising browser add-ons for encryption, that I saw, were flowcrypt and mailvelope. I am making some progress on getting pgp encryption installed in a browser. Last edited by Ralph L September 20th, 2020 at 12:32 AM. I am sure many of you know exactly how to get chrome to support encrypted email, but I am struggling. I would like him to be able to continue to use chrome for his email access. ![]() I would like both of us to use a secure signing system using our private keys.Ĥ. I would like to be able to send him my public key and have his system install it and I would like him to be able to send me his public key and I install it.ģ. It works with any email provider (gmail, hotmail, mediacom, etc)Ģ. I would like my son's encrypted email to work like Enigmail (Thunderbird) works.ġ. Some of these were: S/MIME, FlowCrypt, Secure Mail for Gmail Extension, SendSafely, SafeGmail, ProtonMail, Mailvelop, Autocrypt, etc. I googled "using chrome to read/write encrypted email" and got back a variety of possible solutions. However, my son uses chrome (under windows) to read/write his email. ![]() I can send encrypted emails from one of my mailboxes to another of my mailboxes with no problem. I have installed Enigmail on my Xubuntu 18.04 Thunderbird email program and it seems to work fine. I am trying to set up encrypted email communications with my son.
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