Email/attachments encryption

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PGP is a pita. Just move to Protonmail, it will save you from self-harm, taking drugs and alcohol

Have a look here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3MSBS9w-A

Heedtheadvice

As per ono's post five. Go back a few steps! Why do you want to encrypt?


If you post the reason then you might just get different answers as encryption can bring it's own problems and might even be unnecessary or you find gou loose some functionality.


I recently changedeemail provider and selected one that does support encryption plus digital signatures and more (just in case) but was more interested in lack of advertising, monitoring of messages (by isp, provider and routinely by usa gov etc.) so ended up using mailfence.

Frozen_up_north

If you want to exchange secure email with one or two individuals, you all need ProtonMail. It's free and very convenient. Their iPhone app works great. https://protonmail.com/

ProtonMail is a lot easier than messing around with PGP and potentially more secure.

Another option is secure messaging, as opposed to email.

Equally, if you just want to exchange secure attachments then Veracrypt will encrypt a file but you would need to exchange a common password/phrase via an alternative route (personal contact, phone call, etc). https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html

tronator

Frozen_up_north wrote: »

ProtonMail is a lot easier than messing around with PGP and potentially more secure.

From their website: "We use only secure implementations of AES, RSA, along with OpenPGP..."


So under the hood it's PGP as well.


Thunderbird and Enigmail is very easy to setup these days. It works flawlessly with the standard settings.

lavidaloca

Heedtheadvice wrote: »

As per ono's post five. Go back a few steps! Why do you want to encrypt?


If you post the reason then you might just get different answers as encryption can bring it's own problems and might even be unnecessary or you find gou loose some functionality.


I sometimes need to send personal info in an attachment so it is to do with gdpr.

AndyPix

Why not just send a blank email with a password protected word document attached ..


The latter is encrypted and you can provide the password by phone or whatever

lavidaloca

The attachments are saved into open office 4.1.4 in pdf form. I can password protect say spreadsheets produced in open office as you have suggested. Adobe want to charge roughly £15 per month for this service for pdfs.

AndyPix

https://smallpdf.com/protect-pdf


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lavidaloca

AndyPix wrote: »

https://smallpdf.com/protect-pdf


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Thanks I will try this