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Back in 200X, a graduate student acquaintance of mine had, for a research project, written a browser extension which transparently (as I recall, GPG) encrypted
by rincebrain 4y ago
Back in 200X, a graduate student acquaintance of mine had, for a research project, written a browser extension which transparently (as I recall, GPG) encrypted your emails in Gmail to people and decrypted those from them. I recall how pleased he was demonstrating it to people, and how much smoother and simpler it was than integrating GPG manipulation in your separate mail client.
All that to say, this is something at least some people have thought would be useful for some time, and it's nice to see some people getting access to that functionality.
(Now work for Google, not on anything remotely related to Gmail, remarks are my own, etc etc.)
- m348e912 4y agoDid he ever publish the browser extension? Seems like a cool idea.
- rincebrain 4y agoI don't actually know. I know a few people have linked things which solve the same problem in other comments, but I checked, and neither of the ones linked so far appear to be related, just nice illustrations that yes, other people have had the same problem to solve. But to the best of my knowledge, he graduated without suggesting we all start using his extension to take over the world, and I've not found any suggestions it was published.
- bertman 4y agoSounds like Mailvelope. https://mailvelope.com/en/ https://mailvelope.com/en/
- yegle 4y agohttp://getfiregpg.org http://getfiregpg.org was pretty widely used back in the days. Their Gmail integration would be broken from time to time due to the Gmail web update.