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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: November 23, 2009
- Total Downloads: 820
- Downloads last week: 4
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on November 24, 2009
An extension for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, Enigmail is a must-use for anybody who's concerned about sending e-mail that can be read by anybody, including your Internet Service Provider. It's not intended to encrypt all of your mail, although you can certainly do that. Rather, it's best used for ensuring that even remotely sensitive e-mails don't get read by the wrong person.
It uses the OpenPGP standard to digitally sign your e-mail, and can be configured to accommodate multiple e-mail accounts. One hang up is that it's impossible with the current version to permanently decrypt e-mails, which can prevent them from being found by the otherwise-powerful Thunderbird search tools. Enigmail is an invaluable resource for messages containing sensitive information. An installation guide, which is essential for all but the most advanced power users, is available at the Enigmail Web site.
Publisher's description
From Patrick Brunschwig, Olav Seyfarth :Enigmail adds OpenPGP message encryption and authentication to your email client. It features automatic encryption, decryption and integrated key management functionality. Enigmail requires GnuPG (www.gnupg.org) for the cryptographic functions, which is not included in the installation.
CNET Editor's Note: The Download Now link will prompt a local download of the Firefox extension. To install the extension directly, open the file using your Firefox browser.
What's new in this version:
- Improvements to the main user interface for decrypting messages.
- Use gpg groups as target for email addresses and rules.
- Option to automatically attach signing key to sent messages.
- Allow to send encrypted messages to newsgroups.
- New displaying of keys in the Enigmail key manager.
- A total of 81 bugs were fixed in this release.
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