“The privacy of letters as well as the secrecy of post and telecommunication are inviolable.”
German Constitution, Article 10
Articles
Why Use Email Encryption?
Email encryption should be used by everyone. Here’s why.
rffr.de
Why Do You Need PGP?
For a conclusive answer read this article by Phil Zimmermann, author of the Pretty Good Privacy application.
www.pgpi.org
Das Elektronische Briefgeheimnis
In German
“Wer eine E-Mail verschickt, muß damit rechnen, daß seine Nachricht von Dritten gelesen wird.” Brief article outlining steps you can take to keep your email communications private.
www.sueddeutsche.de
Thinking About Email Security
“The bottom line is, if your email passes through or is stored on servers controlled by others, it’s probably a good idea to consider encryption.” Joe Brockmeier considers the confidentiality of your messages.
www.newsforge.com
Documentation
How to Encrypt Your Email
“You too can get PGP set up in a few simple steps.” Jason Thomas shows just how easy it is to start encrypting your messages.
www.lifehacker.com
Introduction to Cryptography
Not entirely sure how cryptography works? This document’s two chapters, The Basics of Cryptography and Phil Zimmermann on PGP, will tell you what you need to know.
ftp.pgpi.org (PDF file, 1007 kb)
Pretty Good Privacy
“I promote PGP only because I like it and because it will be more useful to me when more people use it.” David Ross covers many aspects relevant to the use of PGP.
www.rossde.com
A Practical Introduction to GNU Privacy Guard
“In this guide, I will show you how to use the most important GPG commands.” Brendan Kidwell introduces GnuPG for Windows users.
www.glump.net
Point-and-Click E-Mail Crypto
“I don’t want people reading my mail.” Roy Hoobler explains how to use KGPG for email and file encryption under KDE.
www.linuxjournal.com
Tools
All major Linux distributions include the necessary tools for file and email encryption as standard. Setup on other platforms is not too difficult, either.
GNU Privacy Guard
“GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP.” GnuPG is the command line tool that provides the backend to many of the best cryptography applications.
www.gnupg.org
Enigmail
Building on the functionality provided by GnuPG, Enigmail gives users of Mozilla, Netscape 7.x and Thunderbird easy access to mail authentication and encryption.
Thanks to Enigmail’s new OpenPGP Key Manager, setting up secure email is now a straightforward task.
enigmail.mozdev.org
Windows Privacy Tray
“WinPT is designed to make life easier for people who want encryption, and to make security less daunting for people who are new to securing data.”
www.stud.uni-hannover.de
GPGMail for Mac OS X
“GPGMail extends Apple’s Mail application and allows you to read and send PGP authenticated and/or encrypted messages.”
www.sente.ch
Secure Email Clients with PGP/MIME
Martin Bretschneider maintains a list of email clients which support PGP/MIME.
www.bretschneidernet.de
Background
The Case for Secure Email
“It may not be surprising for you to learn that email is not a secure medium of communication; however, it may surprise you to learn just how inherently insecure it really is.” Erik Kangas on how email really works, what the security issues are and where you can make the difference.
luxsci.com
Cryptography A-Z
Find out more about the basic terminology and main methods of cryptography.
www.ssh.fi
Other
Symmetric Encryption with PGP/GPG
“Once in a while you need to send a sensitive file to someone who doesn’t use PGP or GPG and doesn’t have a public key.” Information on how to use PGP/GPG to encrypt a file the quick and dirty way.
www.advosys.ca