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MailCloak Webmail Encryption Open for Firefox Testers

November 30th, 1999

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MailCloak Personal Edition, Email Encryption for Firefox is finally open for Beta Testers!

MailCloak is the new GPG based email encryption add-on for today’s top webmail services. MailCloak encrypts Google Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and MSN Live Hotmail with super strong 4096-bit key GPG encryption.

You can download the Firefox add-on directly from us, or from addons.mozilla.com! POP3 versions will be available soon, and the SMB (Small & Medium Business) version will be ready soon after that.

After you have installed MailCloak, you will be prompted to create a key pair, once that’s done you’re ready to go. Check out our detailed quick-start guide if you want some hand-holding, otherwise go ahead and login to your web-based email account (This version supports Google’s Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and MSN Live Mail) and send someone an email. If MailCloak is turned on, your public key and an invitation to MailCloak will automatically be attached to this email. If the recipient is using GPG, PGP, or MailCloak, They will be able to send you encrypted email. When you get their key, you will be able to send them encrypted email. We’ve also created Cryptobot to make this easy to test.

Open Source Encryption, closed source connectivity.
We chose to build MailCloak on top of the industry standard open source GNU Privacy Guard (GPG/GnuPG). GPG uses the OpenPGP standard, first implemented by Phil Zimmerman in 1991, OpenPGP-standard compliant encryption is used by 96 of the top fortune 100 companies, the Department of Defense, and millions of home and business users around the world.