Gwebs Cryptographer

Check this out: To send relatively secure email (encrypted using weak encryption) to someone who doesn’t have WebmailSafety, (or any other encryption software, ) installed:First, enter some text to encrypt and click encrypt:

Copy the resulting text into your email or IM client or post it on your blog or whatever, and then tell your friends/readers/im buddies the password by some other method, and youve got yourself quick and dirty encryption.

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I Just came across this article on why you should encrypt all your Google activities. The author notes that Google, like most other sites, doesn’t encrypt your connection data…

Google, like most other similar services, encrypts login traffic but not your content. So the moment you’re signed in they switch to plain-text communications and send everything to you in the open.

This means your mail, the news sources you read, your calendar events — are all able to be read by someone with access to any part of the network between you and Google. This could be your employer at work, the wireless network at your local coffee shop, whatever. This isn’t good.

And his commentors note a few things you can do about it:

1) log in to https://mail.google.com/mail (note the httpS://, the s stands for SSL)

2) Install the “Customize Google” Firefox Add-On to force the use of https for all google services. Also check out “Better gCal,”  and “Better GMail 2”

3) One user suggested  Google Secure Pro.

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