PGP with Snow Leopard ?

gkreimer: Of course you are right, but I think thats the leasst possible of all options. They don't seem to be too keen on crypto. Just look at the FileVault-development which have been like "0".

But who knows...

Hi Lukas,

great work. This seems to be working pretty well. Did you contact the original developer about this. Maybe you should drop him a line so in case you consider this final he can update his homepage and the links ect. Catch him here:
info@sente.ch

Also there is a SourceForge page for this project and as far as I know some guys are working on a port. Maybe also let them know what you have done so far. Find it here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gpgmail/

Thanks for your work,
cheers Babaqum

Shame on you, Apple!

Breaking security related plug-ins with each new release. Are you working for the US-Goverment or what?!?

Plug-in 1.2.3 works with Apple Mail 4.2, but this is just ridiculous. Actually it should be Apple who offers such a plug-in!

It would be interesting to know, what is keeping Stéphane Corthésy (original developer of GPGMail for Sente http://www.sente.ch/) from posting more official statements about the whole issue. And why it takes so long for an official SourceForge-release.

You could use S/MIME, which Mail has built-in support for. You will need to obtain a key pair from a CA such as Thawte and import it into Mail. This will enable digital signing; your mail recipients will also need such a key pair in order to use full encryption.

Matt

Am in a simpilar pickle as a GPGmail user.

Shame about not being ported to Sl - any idea if it's much more work than a re-compile though? Anyone?

The developer of GPGMail, Stéphane Corthésy, has reported ( http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=999042) that he does not have time to update the software for compatibility with Snow Leopard's Mail.app.

GPGMail has always relied on an undocumented Mail.app plugin API, which changes with every revision and breaks GPGMail compatibility.

Unless someone takes over development of GPGMail -- or Apple either includes native GnuPG support or assigns a developer or two to the task of updating GPGMail -- there will no longer be a convenient way for Mail.app users to use GnuPG.

Apple could and should resolve this issue, in any of three ways:

1. publish the Mail.app plugin API, to make plugin development less sketchy;
2. provide GnuPG support in Mail.app, like it provides S/MIME support; or
3. assign development resources to the GPGMail project.

I agree. This needs to get fixed. Many people rely on GPG for email encryption and it make sense for Apple to provide this functionality, or assist with it.

My own recommendation and preference is to use S/MIME as it is built-in and therefore fully supported and free. Most other major email clients do support S/MIME although unfortunately not necessarily all users support S/MIME 😉

However if you are wedded to PGP and since GPG is effectively 'discontinued' you could consider MacPGP which while not compatible with Snow Leopard today, it has been confirmed will have an upgrade for Snow Leopard compatibility this month I believe.

John Lockwood wrote:
... since GPG is effectively 'discontinued' ...

{{citation needed}}

I'm also looking into getting GPG working with Mail.app and I'm a bit surprised by that statement. Can you elaborate?

GnuPG is not "discontinued". And S/MIME cannot replace PGP (Apple Product Security, for example, signs its email alerts with GnuPG).

The problem is simply one of getting PGP support in Snow Leopard's Mail.app and future revisions of Mail.app.

Yes, but why don't you simply use Thunderbird with Enigmail for now ?
It works well and you can use it alongside Apple Mail.
Use it just for PGP Mails and that's it.

Bernhard