Use Mailvelope To Send Encrypted Emails

Last updated: January 22, 2024 Reading time: 8 minutes
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Mailvelope To Send Encrypted Emails

Over the last few years, we have repeatedly witnessed that our communication mediums are no longer secure. Various examples can see, be it the public disclosure of General Petraeus’s affair in 2012 or the Sony compromise in 2014, after which over 170,000 emails were released. In 2015, the Ashley Madison Compromise led to the public release in which the CEO’s emails were unveiled.

However, we witnessed that the information extracted via these emails was destructive at worst and damaging at its best. That also reminds us that whatever we consider safe should not be perceived this way.

Emails are considered to be a hoard of information. Therefore, we should think carefully before putting the information in our emails. Or else we should spend a little time considering ways to secure our emails from prying eyes.

OpenPGP For Email Encryption

OpenPGP has been derived from the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) protocol. Phil Zimmermann developed this protocol in 1991. This PGP protocol is a non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public-key cryptography. In 1997, the IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force formed the working group, i.e., the OpenPGP, whose focus was to take the once proprietary PGP protocol, which Zimmermann developed. In 1997, it became an IETF proposed standard under RFC 4880. By doing so, it has become the preferred means of encrypting emails.