Email Encryption on an Android Phone
I have a friend who is interested in encrypting her emails on an Android phone. She lacks computer experience. Anything that she would use would have to be very simple. A one time process will probably do her best, not steps that would have to be repeated at each use. Could anyone offer suggestions on the best solution for her? Would something like Proton Mail be sufficient? Ron
On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, hammerron via WLUG wrote:
I have a friend who is interested in encrypting her emails on an Android phone.
She lacks computer experience. Anything that she would use would have to be very simple. A one time process will probably do her best, not steps that would have to be repeated at each use.
I'll preface this that I've never used this app for generating keys, only importing keys that already exist.
Could anyone offer suggestions on the best solution for her? Would something like Proton Mail be sufficient?
I've found a combination of OpenKeyChain and K-9 Mail works perfectly for PGP encryption & signing. Cara
"Cara" == Cara Salter via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, hammerron via WLUG wrote:
I have a friend who is interested in encrypting her emails on an Android phone.
Is she interested in sending email that is encrypted so that only the recipient(s) can read the emails? Or is she interested in encrypting the emails on the phone so that no one else can read them on the phone? Very different use cases. In my experience, encrypted, much less signed emails, is still a pain to do. It's sorta interoperable, but PGP keys (and key management in particular) is just painful at times. No idea on at rest on Android.
I will have to ask On 7/7/23 08:29, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote:
"Cara" == Cara Salter via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes: On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, hammerron via WLUG wrote: I have a friend who is interested in encrypting her emails on an Android phone. Is she interested in sending email that is encrypted so that only the recipient(s) can read the emails? Or is she interested in encrypting the emails on the phone so that no one else can read them on the phone? Very different use cases.
In my experience, encrypted, much less signed emails, is still a pain to do. It's sorta interoperable, but PGP keys (and key management in particular) is just painful at times.
No idea on at rest on Android. _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/QMJ4J2...
"Fair Email" for android. https://email.faircode.eu/ From the website, these privacy-specific features are listed:
Privacy features
Encryption/decryption supported (OpenPGP and S/MIME) Reformat messages to prevent phishing Confirm showing images to prevent tracking Confirm opening links to prevent tracking and phishing Attempt to recognize and disable tracking images Warning if messages could not be authenticated
I've used this program to watch four separate email inboxes, with OAuth2 and non-OAuth2, for the past several years. it has the same concept of "unified inbox" that exists in Thunderbird, should you want to use that. --MCV. On 7/7/23 08:29, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote:
"Cara" == Cara Salter via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, hammerron via WLUG wrote:
I have a friend who is interested in encrypting her emails on an Android phone.
Is she interested in sending email that is encrypted so that only the recipient(s) can read the emails? Or is she interested in encrypting the emails on the phone so that no one else can read them on the phone? Very different use cases.
In my experience, encrypted, much less signed emails, is still a pain to do. It's sorta interoperable, but PGP keys (and key management in particular) is just painful at times.
No idea on at rest on Android. _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/QMJ4J2...
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