Gwebs Cryptographer

You probably know that Google’s Gmail allows you to access Gmail email from any internet connected-computer, but you may not know that Gmail also allows you to check any of your other email accounts, from any internet computer.

That’s right, Gmail will work as a POP3/IMAP/SMTP mail client, allowing you to check your other email accounts with Gmail!

Translation: you can use Gmail to check your ISP (like Verizon) email account, your business email account, or whatever email accounts you currently use that doesn’t have webmail, or doesn’t have webmail that’s as easy to use as Gmail. You can use Gmail to check your home email accounts when you’re away from home, and you can even use Gmail to check multiple accounts – up to five.

Using Gmail will also allow you to gWebs MailCloak to protect almost any email address out there – just add an address to your Gmail account, and your account will now support MailCloak!

So here’s the quick and dirty on how to get ‘er done!

1) Create a Gmail Account & sign in.

2) Go to your account settings and click “Add an account.”

3) Gmail has account settings for most major ISP’s already in their database, so all you have to do is give them your login information.

4) We suggest using colored labels to identify accounts.

5) Sending mail from a POP account within gmail is easy too! Just click on your email address (or think link that says “change” right next to it) when composing mail, and select the account you wish to send from.

Some of you tech-savvy geeks are saying “Got’er done, kthxbye!” right now, but if your’re still scratching your head, read on after the break for a super-detailed walk through of the whole process!

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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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Last Thursday when I was sitting around the Thanksgiving table with my friends and family, (and they asked me what my new job was about), I was surprised to find out that many of them didn’t know the word encryption – but they all knew what it was – and many of them had seen encryption in the movies.

First: What is Encryption?

Encryption is the mathematical process (or algorithm) of taking data and modifying it so it becomes unreadable. Decryption is the process of taking the unreadable encrypted data and running it through an algorithm that returns it to readable form.

Often encrypted data or encryption keys (passwords) will be called “code” but I don’t like to use that word because it’s vague, and has many other meanings in the computer world.

Ok, so now that we know what encryption is, (and here’s the fun part), here are some great movies that feature encryption, and may jog your memory a little more:

Sneakers (with Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Dan Akroyd and River Phoenix) is a movie featuring a universal encryption cracker – and the people who steal it. Obviously a box that can crack any “code” is mathematically impossible, but without it there would be no plot… and that would have been a shame cause

Sneakers was a terrific usual-suspects-esq movie.

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