Langenhoven offers a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that will encrypt Gmail messages.

It achieves this by using RSA type encryption in Javascript.

The site also offers a utility for producing the public and private keys needed for encryption.

I haven’t tested this but the results look like the real thing:

Read the Known Issues section to discover that it works best in Firefox 1.5 or greater and that some of the buttons are troublesome.

Tags: email, encryption, FireFox, GMAIL, greasemonkey, private keys, public public, security

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