Necessity of GPG when using SSL

Chris Boldiston chrisbold1 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 14:17:05 CET 2006


If you use Firefox, download the CustomizeGoogle extension and you can
select "Secure" https mode for all gmail traffic and "Remove ads and
related pages"

Chris

On 2/20/06, lusfert <lusfert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Benjamin Esham wrote on 20.02.2006 7:50:
> > John Clizbe wrote:
> >> Earthlink and Google's GMail use https on their signin page then then
> >> switch
> >> over to http once authenticated
> >
> > I saw a neat trick somewhere online... if you use
> > "https://mail.google.com" as your
> > login page for Gmail, the entire session is encrypted.  I haven't used
> > the normal
> > method since I learned how to do this.  I hope someone finds this
> > helpful! :-)
> >
> This is even included in Gmail help and recommended by Google:
> https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8155
> I don't understand why it isn't enabled by default. For example, at
> https://www.safe-mail.net/ you can use web-interface only via https://
>
> --
> Regards
> OpenPGP Key ID: 0x9E353B56500B8987
> Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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