If you have not already installed the GPGTools then you should go back and do this now. Installing GnuPG on Apple Mail OS X (GPGTools) Creating a Key Pair It is probably worth reminding ourselves what we are about to do. We are going to generate an key pair.  It is a pair because there […] Read more

Much emphasis is put on whether an email service provider can keep emails secure and private with the minimal amount of effort on part of the email user. Achieving security and privacy is also the goal of many email providers. However, the only way to ensure the security of your messages is to manage the […] Read more

Introduction Although Runbox always tries to encrypt your email during transfer between you and our servers, and between our servers and other email providers, the only way to truly ensure that your email can’t be read by anyone you don’t intend it to be read by is to use end-to-end encryption. This ensures that messages […] Read more

On this page we will explain how to install the Enigmail add-on for Thunderbird and how to create your first key pair. Before we begin… If you have not already installed GnuPG/OpenPGP on your computer, then you should go back and do that first before trying to carry out the instructions on this page. Installing […] Read more

The GPG website suggests that GPGTools as an easy way to install GPG on a computer running Apple OS X. The GPGTools installer is easy to use, and will install the necessary components for encryption. By default it will install an add-on for Apple Mail called GPGMail, if you don’t use Apple Mail and don’t […] Read more

The GPG website suggests that Gpg4win as an easy way to install GPG on a computer running Microsoft Windows. The installer is easy to use, and requires only a few options to be selected by the user during installation. Below we have included information about installing Gpg4win. You might also want to look at the […] Read more

Note: As of September 2018 (release 2018.4) GPG Mail is no longer a free plug-in for Apple Mail, and comes with a $25 fee for support for the current version. Here we will look at how to send and receive encrypted and/or signed emails using Apple Mail with the GPGMail add-on. Before we begin… If […] Read more

The guides we have published elsewhere on this website are very much beginners guides. They assume that the reader has not used email encryption before, and is setting it up for the first time. After reading the guides you could be forgiven for thinking that encryption just works once it is installed. Your experience might […] Read more

Here we will look at how to send and receive encrypted and/or signed emails using Thunderbird with the Enigmail add-on. The screen-shots used are from the Windows version of Thunderbird, but they are very similar on Apple OS X. Before we begin… If you have not already installed GnuPG/OpenPGP and Thunderbird with the Enigmail add-on […] Read more