Thunderbird and Encryption
adding GPG and Engimail
Its pointless telling you what a email looks like - its exactly like a letter, that anyone who looks at it can read... Below is an encrypted email sent from thunderbird.
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Notice some thing? Yep you can't read it! It looks like it's all mixed up, but inside all that rubbish the email is still intact waiting for you to read it. |
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So think of encryption as an envelope with your email inside.
If you just want to say hello to friends you use a post card. When you send a letter you always send an envelope with a letter inside even if you only want to catch up with someone, share the news etc. Anyone can read an Email you send, your ISP, service provider or whoever has the technical abilities but if you put in inside an envelope only you and the person you send it to can read it.
Thunderbird Portable is the easiest free way to use email encryption it has built-in support for GPG and Enigmail to sign and encrypt your messages. To do this in an installable Thunderbird is slightly more difficult. To add GPG to Thunderbird Portable, just download GPG for Thunderbird Portable and install it right over your existing installation. Then download the Enigmail extension and install it into Thunderbird. When you restart Thunderbird Portable, you'll have full access to Enigmail and GPG, all made portable.
These links offer help to get you started PGP-Basics and PGPNET mention this page on PGPNET and maybe I'll talk to you!
Remember install thunderbird then GPG then Enigmail also see the links on the right for setup and help.
How to install Thunderbird, GPG & Enigmail