Re[2]: Tor-compatible secure email systems

[Arrakistor <arrakistor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, i've already created Torbird. There is a beta available on the
Torpark forums. I am finishing up the extension to mate it to Torpark
so when you click on an email link in Torpark it opens Torbird, and
vice versa.

Regards,
 Arrakistor

Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 4:46:01 PM, you wrote:

> portable thunderbird with tor - i believe someone has bundled them now,
> but you can use torpark and set thunderbird to use the proxy and always
> launch it after tor and close it before torpark, and install enigmail
> into the portable thunderbird. i've done this, it's pretty easy really

> Kelly Byrd wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> That wasn't the original quesiton. The asker specifically said
>>>> web-based,
>>>> without (in my mind) any of the tricks which would let you do browser
>>>> side decryption. If we're writing applications to do this, decrypting
>>>> on
>>>> the client end isn't really all that hard or unheard of.
>>> But how is possible to do decryption on the client side without
>>> java/javascript, etc?
>>>
>> 
>> That's exactly what I'm saying. The original poster asked for web-based
>> and end-to-end encrypton. To me that means the email is decrypted on the
>> end user's computer. If it's web based, that means the browser does it.
>> But, the original poster didn't want java/javascript involved. Another
>> poster replied that this is easy with things like Thunderbird and GPG. My
>> response above is saying: "well of course. If you stop using a browser
>> and start using applications, doing the decryption is easy, you just
>> write it in C (or whatever)."
>>