Securing email
There are several ways to secure email communications, foremost of which are encryption and anti-virus.
Fortunately, there are free (as in beer and speech) tools out there that fulfill these requirements.
My WinXP box has been virus- and worm-free since I installed it. Why? No, not because of Service Pack 2. Thanks to AVG Ant-Virus Free Edition, I have a relatively safe computing environment, despite the flaws inherent to the OS.
AVG has its own email scanner that integrates very well with Mozilla Thunderbird. Setting up the scanner is quite easy, even through my SSL-enabled GMail POP account.
Dubbed by Wired News as "safe emailing for dummies", Ciphire Mail provides strong encryption and authentication while maintaining a friendly face for most users.
Setting up Ciphire is as easy as choosing an email account to work on and adding a passphrase for encryption and authentication. Ciphire takes it from there: digitally signing messages, checking if Ciphire-encrypted messages came from the real sources, and encrypting and decrypting messages between Cipher clients.
Thunderbird is secure enough as it is, and coupled with tools such as AVG and Cipher, plus the additional security enhancements in GMail, I'm assured that my emails are relatively safe.
Fortunately, there are free (as in beer and speech) tools out there that fulfill these requirements.
My WinXP box has been virus- and worm-free since I installed it. Why? No, not because of Service Pack 2. Thanks to AVG Ant-Virus Free Edition, I have a relatively safe computing environment, despite the flaws inherent to the OS.AVG has its own email scanner that integrates very well with Mozilla Thunderbird. Setting up the scanner is quite easy, even through my SSL-enabled GMail POP account.
Dubbed by Wired News as "safe emailing for dummies", Ciphire Mail provides strong encryption and authentication while maintaining a friendly face for most users.
Setting up Ciphire is as easy as choosing an email account to work on and adding a passphrase for encryption and authentication. Ciphire takes it from there: digitally signing messages, checking if Ciphire-encrypted messages came from the real sources, and encrypting and decrypting messages between Cipher clients.
Thunderbird is secure enough as it is, and coupled with tools such as AVG and Cipher, plus the additional security enhancements in GMail, I'm assured that my emails are relatively safe.
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