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Comment by undoware | Hacker News Reader

This is just MacOS nonsense. It plays in the Valley and at the mall, and nowhere else. The only reason it is on the front page of Hacker News is that we can't see outside our own event horizon.

Poke me when a popular web email service implements GPG.

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Hushmail implements GPG, though perhaps it does not pass your definition of 'popular'.

Any current implementation of GPG by _web email_ is probably insecure as it would rely on JavaScript cryptography. Perhaps when the W3C passes the browser cryptography draft, and browsers start adding that in, we might see this. But the economics aren't aligned, because popular web email services want to see what you read and write, so they're not particularly motivated to give you strong encryption.

I wouldn't really recommend Hushmail:

http://www.cybercrimereview.com/2012/11/hushmail-provides-un...

> It plays in the Valley and at the mall, and nowhere else.

From where I sit I watch the Amish ride by in their horse-drawn buggies several times a day. I'm about as far away from the Valley as you can get (technology-wise) and it "plays" quite well here also.

https://github.com/seancolyer/gmail-crypt http://www.curetheitch.com/projects/webpg-chrome/ http://www.mailvelope.com/ https://github.com/crised/SafeGmail

That was ten minutes of looking. (Of course, you still have to trust your webmail provider completely... but that's the price of webmail.)

Pardon us for being interested in something that a lot of us can benefit in? I didn't see a sign when coming in that said everything on the front page needs to be world-changing news.

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