Starchy Grant

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Starchy came here to preserve uptime, fight for your rights online, run ultramarathons, and chew bubblegum, and he's all out of bubblegum.

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Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart, Starchy Grant | October 1, 2018

The Devil Is in The Details Of Project Verify’s Goal To Eliminate Passwords

A coalition of the four largest U.S. wireless providers calling itself the Mobile Authentication Taskforce recently announced an initiative named Project Verify. This project would let users log in to apps and websites with their phone instead of a password, or serve as an alternative to ...
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Deeplinks Blog by Soraya Okuda, Starchy Grant, Bill Budington | May 14, 2018

Using the Command Line to Decrypt a Message on Linux

If you have disabled the PGP plugin from your mail client and saved a copy of an encrypted email to your desktop, this guide will help you read that message in as safe a way as possible given what we know about the vulnerability described by EFAIL.Note that the first...
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Deeplinks Blog by Soraya Okuda, Starchy Grant, Bill Budington | May 14, 2018

PGP and EFAIL: Frequently Asked Questions

UPDATE: Enigmail and GPG Tools have been patched for EFAIL. For more up-to-date information, please see EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense guides.Researchers have developed code exploiting several vulnerabilities in PGP (including GPG) for email, and theorized many more which others could build upon. For users who have few—or even...
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Deeplinks Blog by Soraya Okuda, Starchy Grant, Bill Budington | May 14, 2018

Using the Command Line to Decrypt a Message on Windows

If you have disabled the PGP plugin from your mail client and saved a copy of an encrypted email to your desktop, this guide will help you read that message in as safe a way as possible given what we know about the vulnerability described by EFAIL.1. Open the start...
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Deeplinks Blog by Soraya Okuda, Starchy Grant, Bill Budington | May 14, 2018

Using the Command Line to Decrypt a Message on macOS

If you have disabled the PGP plugin from your mail client and saved a copy of an encrypted email to your desktop, this guide will help you read that message in as safe a way as possible given what we know about the vulnerability described by EFAIL.1. Open Finder (the...
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Deeplinks Blog by Soraya Okuda, Starchy Grant, Bill Budington | May 14, 2018

Exporting PGP-Encrypted Email From Outlook

After disabling the GpgOL plugin, you will need to save encrypted messages as files on your hard drive in order to view them later on.1. Select the encrypted message.2. Right-click the file ending in “.asc”, then click “Save As.”3. Click on “Desktop” to choose where you will save the...
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Deeplinks Blog by Soraya Okuda, Starchy Grant, Bill Budington | May 14, 2018

Exporting PGP-Encrypted Email From Apple Mail

After disabling the GPGTools plugin for Apple Mail, you will need to save encrypted messages as files on your hard drive in order to view them later o1. Select the encrypted message. (Note: If you have followed the instructions for how to disable GPG in Apple Mail correctly, you...
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Deeplinks Blog by Soraya Okuda, Starchy Grant, Bill Budington | May 14, 2018

Exporting PGP-Encrypted Email From Thunderbird

After disabling Enigmail, you will need to save encrypted messages as files on your hard drive in order to view them later on.These instructions will work on most desktop operating systems.1. Select the encrypted message.2. Click on the hamburger menu (the three horizontal lines).3. Hover over “Save As” on...
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Deeplinks Blog by Soraya Okuda, Starchy Grant, Bill Budington | May 13, 2018

Disabling PGP in Outlook with Gpg4win

Researchers have developed code exploiting several vulnerabilities in PGP (including GPG) for email. In response, EFF’s current recommendation is to disable PGP integration in email clients. Disabling PGP decryption in Outlook requires running the Gpg4win installer again so that you can choose not to have the GpgOL plug-in on...
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Deeplinks Blog by Soraya Okuda, Starchy Grant, Bill Budington | May 13, 2018

Disabling PGP in Apple Mail with GPGTools

Researchers have developed code exploiting several vulnerabilities in PGP (including GPG) for email. In response, EFF’s current recommendation is to disable PGP integration in email clients. Disabling PGP decryption in Apple Mail requires deleting a “bundle” file used by the application. Your existing keys will remain available on your...
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Deeplinks Posts by Starchy

The Devil Is in The Details Of Project Verify’s Goal To Eliminate Passwords

Using the Command Line to Decrypt a Message on Linux

PGP and EFAIL: Frequently Asked Questions

Using the Command Line to Decrypt a Message on Windows

Using the Command Line to Decrypt a Message on macOS

Exporting PGP-Encrypted Email From Outlook

Exporting PGP-Encrypted Email From Apple Mail

Exporting PGP-Encrypted Email From Thunderbird

Disabling PGP in Outlook with Gpg4win

Disabling PGP in Apple Mail with GPGTools

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