Encrypted Webmail

I’ve long used PGP.

In fact long before it got commercialised.

However one of the things it was never easy to do with PGP was encrypt what I’ll call ad-hoc communications and web based email. So trying to encrypt IM conversations or facebook messages or … well you take your pick of what … was just a nightmare that required complicated hoop jumping measures or specific client software.

Now encipher.it have come out with a simple, effective and strong method for doing all of the above and more.

Simply visit the site, bookmark the link they point you at (a bit of javascript) and when you need to encrypt your webmail simply create your email as normal but prior to sending click the javascript link, enter your chosen encryption key which can be as simple or as complicated as you like and your text become garbage to all intents and purposes.

So an email that says:

This is a test

becomes:

 This message is encrypted. Visit https://encipher.it to learn how to deal with it.

EnCt2a24aebb4948433aa3bdae40c2dbccc2ad02f3c7fa24aebb4948433aa3bdae40cbE6vPop02QB
S7uL3kk5hgkVFeK0UnVYQronPlg6z10g=IwEmS

The only other thing you need to organise is getting the encryption key to the person at the other end.

And as for security, well all the processing is done locally in your browser.

Sorted.