DISCUSSION: Securing Your Email With Thunderbird and GPG: a Crashcourse

Antonius_Block · 05-07-2006, 03:28 PM

This thread is to discuss the article titled:
Securing Your Email With Thunderbird and GPG: a Crashcourse

Quote:

Introduction Here is a quick and easy way to secure your email via public-key encryption using Thunderbird and GPG in an OS-agnostic environment. Requirements

Thunderbird >= 1.5
GPG

1. Download and Install the Enigmail Thunderbird Extension:

Download the extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/71/
Goto Tools->Extensions and Install the Extension
Restart Thunderbird

2. Generate Key Pair in Thunderbird: [list] [*]Goto the new OpenPGP menu and select Key Managment [*]In the new window, select Generate->New Key Pair [*]Select which account you would like to associate the Keys with.

J_K9 · 06-21-2006, 02:51 PM

There are quite a few mentions of "OpenPGP" in this article, which I think should read "OpenGPG" instead

Cheers,

-jk

Bharatsoni · 02-20-2007, 05:03 AM

Although this is a good article, I need to know what will be the next step to decrypt the message that is being send.
Say I follow the procedure as told with thundrbird. I send a mail (encrypted & signed) to a person who is using outlook on xp machine. How that mail will be decrypted. I have also send my public key to him. What that person need to use with outlook to decrypt the message.

Thanks in anticipation.

x81kilo · 09-17-2010, 04:41 PM

was Bharatsoni's question ever answered on how to read on the receiving end an encrypted msg?