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Re:What is the point of a public key fingerprint? by mark_l_watson on Saturday December 16, 2023 @01:41PM (#38666640)
Nice write up. I have had two customers who had me install PGP in Apple email, which was fairly painless.

Until ProtonMail, which is what I use, using PGP was a great option. More people should try to encrypt communication.

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Re:What is the point of a public key fingerprint? by gruez on Saturday December 16, 2023 @01:46PM (#38666677)
> Nice write up. I have had two customers who had me install PGP in Apple email, which was fairly painless.

Mail.app supports PGP? How?

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Re:What is the point of a public key fingerprint? by asimpletune on Saturday December 16, 2023 @01:53PM (#38666734)
So I guess Apple Mail + Keychain Access is all it takes https://support.apple.com/guide/mail/sign-or-encrypt-emails-...

Pretty neat!

(Edit: not technically PGP, but PKI)

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Re:What is the point of a public key fingerprint? by kstrauser on Saturday December 16, 2023 @01:49PM (#38666702)
I use to use this plugin: https://gpgtools.org/
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Re:What is the point of a public key fingerprint? by eduction on Saturday December 16, 2023 @02:55PM (#38667176)
can affirm that gpgtools + mail.app is close to seamless, once the keys are already exchanged.
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Re:What is the point of a public key fingerprint? by kstrauser on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:23PM (#38670063)
But only if it works with your OS version. It always takes them a few months to support the update. I'm not complaining. It's not like they're a giant company making megabucks to support it. But if you buy a new Mac today with Sonoma pre-installed, you're gonna have to wait a while before you can encrypt your email.
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Re:What is the point of a public key fingerprint? by jeauxlb on Saturday December 16, 2023 @07:28PM (#38669199)
The free version of this software is available at https://github.com/Free-GPGMail/Free-GPGMail
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Re:What is the point of a public key fingerprint? by kstrauser on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:25PM (#38670075)
Wow, I didn't know that existed. Nice!

When I used GPGMail, I didn't mind giving them a few dollars to support it. It's nice to not have to, though.

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