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How does S/MIME differ from PGP/GPG, for the purpose of signing and/or encrypting email?
In addition to the titular question, are the two technologies compatible? If so, under what circumstances?
What are the relative benefits of the two technologies?
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Is it possible to associate a secondary email address with an existing *public* key?
For example, if I have a friend's public key that's associated with, say, email address [email protected], but I want to send him a message at [email protected], is there a sensible way to do this? Is ...
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Enigmail cannot communicate with gpg-agent
Update
As of Ubuntu 16.04, the plug-in works as expected and there's no need to downgrade as suggested in the accepted answer. The question was applicable to Ubuntu 15.04 and, maybe, 15.10.
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How do I prevent Enigmail from encrypting my email, even when encryption is turned off?
Enigmail add-on to Thunderbird is encrypting all emails, even when encryption is turned off.
I save the email as a draft, and when I view it in Drafts folder (or if it was sent), then it shows as ...
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saving and searching encrypted mail
I often send and receive gpg-encrypted mail. At the moment I use thunderbird + enigmail (in linux) to do that. As far as I know there is no way in thunderbird to find all encrypted messages which ...
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Integrate GnuPG with Outlook
I want to integrate GnuPG with Outlook in such a way that when it receives an email, it must automatically decrypt the mail using my private key and display on-screen.
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Mutt with GPG Password Protection
I got Mutt working with the default IMAP password management configuration with this line in my config:
set imap_pass = XXXX
Which is obviously not secure. I looked at this
https://wiki.archlinux....
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In what real-life environments is GPG email signing used? [closed]
I've been using e-mail for over a decade in a regular business environment, but I can not remember having seen any invitation from anybody to GPG sign my e-mails (or somebody who offered to send GPG-...
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GnuPG Domain to Domain email encryption
I'm running a Debian mail server and am looking forward to encrypt mails from my domain to the domain of a business partner. Also, the encryption should happen on the mail server itself not on a mail ...
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Using OpenSSL to generate encryption key for Outlook users
A private web application needs to receive encrypted email from perhaps 20 known users. How can I use OpenSSL to generate a valid encryption certificate that Outlook users can import and use to ...
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Mail encryption on Windows RT
Is it somehow possible to use mail encryption preferably via GPG on Windows RT?
Since on a Windows RT Surface tablet you only have access to Windows Mail as an app in the store, there is no fancy ...
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GPG Keys and Emails
I have been testing out GPG keys and were studying the changes of the keys when adding/removing users on the key. If I add a user Alice upon key generation. I export the key pairs's public and private ...
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GPG keys for mailinglists
There are two mailing-lists (e.g. [email protected] and [email protected]) for which I'd like to generate GPG keys and send the respective private keys to the members of the lists, so mails to the lists can ...
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Is there a guide to setting up Mozilla Thunderbird to use my GPG keys to sign and/or encrypt email messages on Windows?
I see instructions on websites and questions here about using GPG keys with Thunderbird in Linux, but nothing on Windows. I have GPG, Kleopatra, and Thunderbird 3 installed on Windows, I made my GPG ...
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No prompt for setting a passphrase in GPG Keychain
I am trying to use GPG Keychain with Thunderbird (version 60.5.1) and Enigmail (version 2.0.9 / 20181209-1409).
In the process of generating a key for the email address after setting the password and ...
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