In one word: it just WORKS. Goodbye, Gmail reading your email and profiling you based on what keywords you type. Mind you — at least for the free version! — this is a minimalist approach to PGP encryption on a web-based email interface, such as provided by Gmail. It allows you to read and write encrypted messages, and is reasonably simple to do so (you get a BIG Mailvelope icon to click :-) ). If you're a die-hard PGP power user, you can get Mailvelope to use whatever keyrings you already hav... Show more
The Mailvelope plugin enhances email providers with end-to-end encryption based on the OpenPGP standard
It adds missing encryption and decryption features to the user interface of common webmail providers, supporting PGP encryption standard (OpenPGP, GPG) and compatibility with other PGP applications
Users can encrypt files on their hard drive and send encrypted email attachments
The plugin is preconfigured for common webmail providers like Gmail, GMX, Outlook
com, WEB
DE, and Yahoo, but also supports other email providers or web applications
Mailvelope is open source and based on OpenPGP
js, an OpenPGP library for JavaScript
It seamlessly integrates security into users' workflow, making it easy for anyone to use
The plugin ensures that sensitive data is securely packaged, preventing unauthorized access, including from the email provider
For more details, visit the Mailvelope website