Encryption on Mac useful links
If you use a Macintosh computer, here are a few useful links for software if you would like to use encryption on your computer. Grab my public key from this server or the mit server and send me an email to try it out.
Sente GPG Mail plugin for Apple Mail.
http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/English.lproj/GPGMail.html
MacGPG (needed for using the GPG Mail plugin)
http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/
Fire (discontinued, they recommend using Adium) I liked Fire because it had the ability to use PGP encryption for all IM messages. I don't know of any other PGP capable IM client at the moment.
http://fire.sourceforge.net/
http://www.adiumx.com/
Adium uses OTR Off-the-Record Messaging for it's encryption. I haven't played with this yet as I would really like a PGP/GPG version.
http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
CyberDuck for FTP and SFTP. I use this for secure file transfers.
http://cyberduck.ch/
Tor for private web surfing. I use this with Firefox and the tor plugin. Haven't seen a Safari version yet.
http://tor.eff.org/
For a general reference to all kinds of Encryption/Privacy tools, check out EPIC
http://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html
If you have any recommendations to better tools, please post them in the comment section below.
Adium
I've started using Adium with the OTR encryption. You don't have to install anything else as it is all taken care of for you in the application. So far it seems to work well using the AIM (AOL) and Yahoo IM networks. I've found a few of my contacts also use OTR encryption and it works seamlessly with them.
I'd still like to see PGP level encryption used for IM traffic.
Once the iPhone is opened up to developers I'd like to see Adium with OTR running on it.
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