Do You Use Email Encryption??

My first poll so go easy on me alright

I've paid my dues and learned about and put in place "email encryption" but am having trouble understanding why no-one else wants to do it. Only "1" of my friends/contacts uses it and the rest don't want to be bothered with it.

So i am asking you - a wilder's member, if you use email encryption??

If yes - please list what program(s) you use/why you use encryption/if a high/low percentage of your friends and contacts use encryption.

If no - please tell us why you don't and if you plan to use encryption in the near future

 

Yes i use the Thunderbird email client with the Enigmail extension and GPG4Win. They work great together and are all "free". Have encryption setup to use with both my gmail and hotmail accounts. Only one of my contacts uses encryption

I hate the snooping the NSA and other outlets do and detest the fact that my email is scanned for advertising purposes. Though i have nothing to hide, i do it for privacy issues.

 

No, I don't. As mentioned most people (including myself) couldn't be bothered with it. I use Gmail, and personally I don't believe they will ever use personal information unlawfully.

Some people make so much noise about privacy issues related to Gmail, but the real danger for one's privacy is the Internet itself, blogs, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and their ilk.

If I were a medical practitioner or a lawyer, perhaps encryption of my mail and some of the recipients would make sense.

 

Good first poll, tobacco.
I believe that if more of us knew how insecure the medium is, we might all be more adamant about encryption.
We always read about prying eyes being able to see each email if they want to, but who among us has actual evidence of others reading our messages?
I use email for work, and I attach contracts in PDF formats, and so far, I am not aware of any problems.
Encryption seems like a fine idea, but we haven't been knocked over the head with proof of privacy violations, so we do what is most convenient. Nothing.

 

Nope, and i don't even know how it works
Might i get enlightened

 

Do You Use E-mail Encryption??

No, I don't use E-mail Encryption.
My e-mails have No Secrets to hide.

 

If really necessary I send an encrypted pdf or encrypt a zip attachment, but of course the other party will need to be advised of the password.
Maybe anything encrypted will raise ISP's suspicions that something illegal/sinister is being sent and the 'authorities' will be informed ?

 

Yes I use e-mail encryption when I send my wiki leaks , .... ok ok the true is that I never have had the need for e-mail Encryption...yet

 

Well, it looks like wilder's members are no different then my friends and contacts

I do feel however that email encryption will be the "norm" but how long that takes is anyones guess.

One friend that i "was" bugging to use encryption has had his hotmail account hacked twice in the past month with all his addressbook contacts being sent "viagra spam" "Twice" and he just didn't care until i told him to "remove me" from his contact list.

 

Add me to the no column. Actually I would love to see it catch on, but it requires everyone else to use it also and there is the obvious problem. The average user doesn't know how or why they should, and until it comes as a default option in Outlook (or your average webmail site) I doubt we'll see much of it.

 

So the encryption also encrypts the address book?

I always figured that Hotmail accounts being hacked had more to do with keyloggers and trojans present on a system, as opposed to unencrypted email.
For instance, my spam influx will be going along at a fairly normal, low rate, then all at once it will spike through the roof. It always seems to correlate with having sent one email to a new person, and I've always figured that individual likely had an infected system that harvested my address.

 

No it doesn't however, that should of been a warning sign to start taking email security more seriously.

The funny thing is, if the "mailman" walked up to your house having opened all your mail and was reading it before putting it in your mailbox, i bet 99% of people would be "absolutely furious"

Why is the attitude towards email different ?

 

Hey There Noob

Have a look at this nice freebie - https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=277867

Don't even need an email client and for "Noobs" , easy to understand with the help of built-in how-to demos!

 

WOW, looks nice, but right now or i mean i have never really used E-Mail a lot.
Just for school things and every now and then something random
But ill bookmark this man Just in case who knows

 

Sure Thing Noob

Have another look at it when you begin using email more.

 

Quote. And LowWaterMark added all needed considerations.

 

I don't use encryption in email because no one i send it to doesn't and they can't decrypt it. I would use it just to piss off snoopers but coworkers just send mail back saying that they cant open it they don't even try to bother with protected pdf containing contracts yet alone with some other format or container

I would agree that encrypted mail is a must, at least https to connect to the provider, but i have no idea how to introduce that to the "not concerned about security" user.

 

More users would encrypt their email if the email client software makers would build in decryption utilities, the emails I encrypt I get returned as un-open-able.

 

Great responses so far

Seems to be several that would like to use encryption but are in the same boat as me

I've said my peace to my friends and other contacts and am not going to push the matter further. What i do though is sign each and every email with my pgp key which is hard too miss to keep them thinking about it

 

I use VeriSign and PGP.

 

And how about your contacts?? Do many encrypt also??

 

Actually thanks to this thread i started encrypting some of my USB's just to make sure
(TrueCrypt FTW!)

 

Hi Smokey.

Answer = NO, never have, never will.

No need to, none of my Emails contain any personal data worth grabbing, they would get a laugh if they did.

Encryption ? Far too messy and too much trouble for normal scribblers.
I never enter any risk data and certainly not any financial data on my Email systems. Banks and so on ? I phone `em or mail `em.

I use OE6 as my top choice with Mozilla Thunderbird as my reserve for private stuff under my real name and Gmail for other stuff where the fictitious John Bull is the rider.

John B