pgp and enigmail
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Current situation of STRIKE
● Privacy○ Communication
■ Emails < now here we are■ Chats■ Phone Calls■ Video Conferences
Cryptography
● Symmetric (TripleDES)○ one key for both
Encrypt/Decrypt● Asymmetric (RSA)
○ two keys, one to encrypt, another to decrypt
PGP Basics
https://www.powtoon.com/show/gmd6oEQEY8q/pgp-basics/
defined in rfc4880
Gnu Privacy Guard
GnuPG is a implementation of PGP protocol● GPGTools for Mac OS X and Apple Mail● GPG4Win for Windows and Outlook● File encryption with GPG tools● Enigmail for Thunderbird
—— what this guys are working on
What’s STRIKE up to right now
● Bring TW things to Enigmail○ Test driven development (xpcshell unit tests)○ Continuous integration (Travis-CI)○ Code description of Provisioning (Vagrant/Docker)
● Merged to master○ Tests for XPCOM GPG binding○ Error handling
● Enhancement on Usability and XD
If you are interested
Follow this feed for news about STRIKE:https://my.thoughtworks.com/groups/strike-public
Fork this repo to contribute to Enigmail:http://sourceforge.net/p/enigmailBy Patrick Brunschwig