Secure (encrypted) email

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Situation is this:
A friend of a friend wants to communicate to a worker (non-profit aid
worker) in a closed country via email to see how they are doing, but
doesn't want to jeopardise the sensitivity of the worker there.
Anyone care to recommend a way that the two people (or other friends if
later needed) can email each other without anything looking too suspect
in the email address e.g.
person@secure-don't-read-this-encrypted-email.com

It most *definitely* needs to be non-techy (PGP is out then!) as these
are senior-citizens who need to share heart-to-heart things without
prying eyes reading private email and aren't the most computer literate
but can do general PC things.
Something that is an easy add-on to Outlook or Outlook Express (or other
email app) or a standalone program that will work with Win95-WinXP.
Thanks
 
©® said:
Situation is this:
A friend of a friend wants to communicate to a worker (non-profit aid
worker) in a closed country via email to see how they are doing, but
doesn't want to jeopardise the sensitivity of the worker there.
Anyone care to recommend a way that the two people (or other friends if
later needed) can email each other without anything looking too suspect
in the email address e.g.
person@secure-don't-read-this-encrypted-email.com

It most *definitely* needs to be non-techy (PGP is out then!) as these
are senior-citizens who need to share heart-to-heart things without
prying eyes reading private email and aren't the most computer literate
but can do general PC things.
Something that is an easy add-on to Outlook or Outlook Express (or other
email app) or a standalone program that will work with Win95-WinXP.
Thanks
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I'm not sure if this is what you are after but have you considered the
wonderful world of steganogrphy?
Its a manner to hide text messages in images. That way it looks like
like 2 people are emailing boring to each other (with the text files
hidden in the images). It also doesnt change the original image.
One easy to use program is
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~alatham/stego.html

OR you could simply ROT13 encode the message (do a search for ROT13
encoders/decoders.)

Another interesting approach is a place called spam mimic. You type a
short message, and it encodes it in a fake spam message. you send that
message to your friend and they go to the site, enter it in and it
decodes it for them.
http://www.spammimic.com/encode.shtml




HTH
 
Anti_Freak_Machine said:
I'm not sure if this is what you are after but have you considered the
wonderful world of steganogrphy?
Its a manner to hide text messages in images. That way it looks like
like 2 people are emailing boring to each other (with the text files
hidden in the images). It also doesnt change the original image.
One easy to use program is
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~alatham/stego.html

OR you could simply ROT13 encode the message (do a search for ROT13
encoders/decoders.)

Another interesting approach is a place called spam mimic. You type a
short message, and it encodes it in a fake spam message. you send that
message to your friend and they go to the site, enter it in and it
decodes it for them.
http://www.spammimic.com/encode.shtml




HTH
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Crap! I forgot to mention- You need to be careful about using crpytology
in other countries. The US has some funky laws dealing with that. Do
your homework o nthe subject before recommending something to them. :)
 
Anti_Freak_Machine said:
Crap! I forgot to mention- You need to be careful about using
crpytology in other countries. The US has some funky laws dealing
with that. Do your homework o nthe subject before recommending
something to them. :)
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They are not from USA at all. From Africa/Europe.
 
©® said:
They are not from USA at all. From Africa/Europe.
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Are the products I mentioned something along the lines of what you are
looking for? If not, give me some more guidlines and Ill keep looking
(but after class, I'm running late)
 
Anti_Freak_Machine said:
Are the products I mentioned something along the lines of what you are
looking for? If not, give me some more guidlines and Ill keep looking
(but after class, I'm running late)
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Pegasus Mail has built in encryption capabilities; if both parties have
pmail and know the encryption passphrase, it is as easy as pie. Also
Pmail is a pretty good mail client and easy to use.
 
Basically, all they need is the ability to type an email, click a button
to encrypt (with password) then send the email. On the other side, the
person needs to click a button to decrypt (using agreed password) and
read the email.
Using other methods like messages in JPGs etc. is not helpful for them.
Thanks for your help.
 
©® said:
Basically, all they need is the ability to type an email, click a button
to encrypt (with password) then send the email. On the other side, the
person needs to click a button to decrypt (using agreed password) and
read the email.
Using other methods like messages in JPGs etc. is not helpful for them.
Thanks for your help.
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This is exactly what Pegasus Mail would do for them. I recommend you
look into it.
 
Randy said:
Pegasus Mail has built in encryption capabilities; if both parties
have pmail and know the encryption passphrase, it is as easy as pie.
Also Pmail is a pretty good mail client and easy to use.
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Thanks for that hint Randy - only thing is they are already using
default email (Outlook/OExpress) so need something to compliment that if
possible.
You have a link for the encryption page of PMail so I can send that to
them to read?
Thanks
 
Take in consideration that an encrypted email will be standing out in a data
steram if this land only has a small telecomminucation network. Especilay if
the country is known to the other counry to be suspicious, an encrypted
message is much mare likely to be filtered out and hacked.

Just my € 0,02

MightyKitten
 
Situation is this:
A friend of a friend wants to communicate to a worker (non-profit aid
worker) in a closed country via email to see how they are doing, but
doesn't want to jeopardise the sensitivity of the worker there.
Anyone care to recommend a way that the two people (or other friends if
later needed) can email each other without anything looking too suspect
in the email address e.g.
person@secure-don't-read-this-encrypted-email.com

It most *definitely* needs to be non-techy (PGP is out then!) as these
are senior-citizens who need to share heart-to-heart things without
prying eyes reading private email and aren't the most computer literate
but can do general PC things.
Something that is an easy add-on to Outlook or Outlook Express (or other
email app) or a standalone program that will work with Win95-WinXP.
Thanks
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A-Lock Encryption
http://www.pc-encrypt.com/_site/alock/download.mhtml

regards

Dud
 
©® said:
Basically, all they need is the ability to type an email, click a button
to encrypt (with password) then send the email. On the other side, the
person needs to click a button to decrypt (using agreed password) and
read the email.
Using other methods like messages in JPGs etc. is not helpful for them.
Thanks for your help.
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Sorry bout that, I misunderstood the request.
Hope you found what you are looking for!
 
©® said:
Situation is this:
A friend of a friend wants to communicate to a worker (non-profit aid
worker) in a closed country via email to see how they are doing, but
doesn't want to jeopardise the sensitivity of the worker there.
Anyone care to recommend a way that the two people (or other friends if
later needed) can email each other without anything looking too suspect
in the email address e.g.
person@secure-don't-read-this-encrypted-email.com

It most *definitely* needs to be non-techy (PGP is out then!) as these
are senior-citizens who need to share heart-to-heart things without
prying eyes reading private email and aren't the most computer literate
but can do general PC things.
Something that is an easy add-on to Outlook or Outlook Express (or other
email app) or a standalone program that will work with Win95-WinXP.
Thanks
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"A-LOCK" for Email
Free, simple to use, universal - all Email, all Windows

Info at
http://www.pc-encrypt.com/_site/alock/features.mhtml

Free download at
http://www.pc-encrypt.com/_site/alock/download.mhtml
 
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