How to send encrypted files using PGP?
Hi.. I just learnt how to send emails using PGP encryption. However , ive not been able to figure out how to encrypt attachments using PGP. of if you can do it at all? .. Im using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with windows 8.1 dual boot.
I reckon that we have quite a few people in our group with a good knowledge about all these. So if any of you could help me with this.. Thanks
Pirate Praveen Mon 16 Mar 2015 4:02AM
@akshay installing a 'never heard before app, finding a jabber service, registering account, then configuring it in your app itself is too long process for many people (believe me I have to do it with all the people I want to chat and most just give up). So telling them to install fdroid apk is making it even more difficult. But if ChatSecure is broken I have to recommend conversations. Last time I checked xabber doesn't allow new registrations.
Pirate Praveen Mon 16 Mar 2015 4:06AM
That is problem enough and even after that otr doesn't work without a continuous connection. So I think we should focus on TextSecure, which is asynchronous messaging. Though I will be left out untill it reaches Firefox OS and it seems Mozilla is more interested in DRM and marketshare than users' privacy.
Pirate Praveen Mon 16 Mar 2015 4:26AM
@arjun try whiteout.io for gpg with email. They have chrome, android and iPhone apps.
Fayad Fami Mon 16 Mar 2015 5:00AM
@praveenarimbrathod whiteout mail is a great find. Thanks for sharing.
[deactivated account] Mon 16 Mar 2015 1:11PM
@praveenarimbrathod exactly! Textsecure is good but i dont wanna share my contacts list with an app and thats y i was hoping for an app like chatsecure. Anyways , take a look at this if u want to - its like a comparison of all instant messaging apps -a very good insight on the privacy aspect of the applications:
https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
Pirate Praveen Mon 16 Mar 2015 1:35PM
@arjun they say the contact list is not stored on the server. How about running a TextSecure server ourselves?
Ideally we should add an option to use TextSecure like asynchronous messaging capability to XMPP. How about using gpg+xmpp? Conversations support gpg in addition to otr as an encryption option. I think that will suffice for our use case.
Pirate Praveen Mon 16 Mar 2015 1:59PM
[deactivated account] Tue 17 Mar 2015 12:43AM
@praveenarimbrathod - "they say the contact list is not stored on the server. " - i dint get u , so where is it stored?
"How about running a TextSecure server ourselves?" - you could do that? .. and does this mean that the contacts will be stored on the server you run?
Pirate Praveen Tue 17 Mar 2015 1:34AM
@arjun they say they drop the contact list after checking if any contact already registered with textsecure.
Akshay · Mon 16 Mar 2015 2:07AM
You don't need to pay 160. Install f-droid via its apk first and then through f-droid you can easily install conversations gratis