Encrytped email attachments

[Ben McGinnes]

On 11/10/10 8:56 PM, sunegtheoverlord wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to encrypt email attachments with GnuPG? I've read you have
> to install some extra libraries but i don't know what i'm supposed to be
> doing?
> 
> any help would be appreciated.

Messages sent in OpenPGP/MIME format (with content type set to
"multipart/encrypted" and "application/pgp-encrypted") encrypt the
attachments automatically.  Messages sent with the body of the message
encrypted with ASCII armouring inline will not.

Most email clients which support OpenPGP/GPG either natively or via a
plug-in do the former automatically.  I use Thunderbird with Enigmail
and it will encrypt an attachment to an encrypted email without any
additional configuration or installation of libraries.


Regards,
Ben

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Ben McGinnes  http://www.adversary.org/  Twitter: benmcginnes
    Systems Administrator, Writer, ICT Consultant
Encrypted email preferred - primary OpenPGP/GPG key: 0xA04AE313
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x371AC5BFA04AE313

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