PGP for Thunderbird
Today, I’ll talk about how you can set up PGP for Thunderbird. PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) allows you to encrypt and digitally sign your emails. I wanted to publish this post for quite some time now and thanks to some help from the 34C3, I finally managed to do it. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Before we can start installing all the requirements and setting up PGP, I’d like to give you a short introduction to PGP. Basically, PGP is a tool to encrypt and digitally sign emails by applying public key cryptography. This means that you link your email account to a key pair, which can be used to encrypt and decrypt mails. Each of these key pairs consists of a public and a private key. Using those keys, you can encrypt and digitally sign your emails. Any person that knows your public key will now be able to use it to encrypt emails. On the other hand, you can use your private key to prove that you are the author of the email. Your private key will be used to decrypt mails encrypted with your public key and vice versa. ...