We’re proud to announce that you can use Cryptoucan™ with your web mail now. Since you’re most likely accessing your emails through a web browser, you need to install Mailvelope add-on. In this week’s article we will show you how to install and set up Mailvelope add-on so you can comfortable encrypt emails right from your browser.
We’ve already shown you how to use Cryptoucan™ with Thunderbird and Outlook email clients, but we recognize that most common use of email is through web mail services. There’s a solution to using Cryptoucan™ that way, thankfully!
Before installing Mailvelope web browser add-on, you need Gpg4win. You can get this software bundle it from our Download page here. During the installation process, make sure to check these two following components for installation:
Picture 1: Gpg4win Setup window
And now for Mailvelope installation and set up!
We have to warn you right away that the installation process may differ depending on the web browser you are using – options showed in this guide will NOT be missing from your browser, they just may look different or may be in a different window. We’re using Google Chrome.
Picture 2: Adding Mailvelope in Chrome Web Store
We need to set up the correct OpenPGP Preferences now:
If you’re using, for example, Mozilla Firefox browser, you probably don’t have to set up OpenPGP Preferences yourself as Firefox tends to do it automatically.
Picture 3: OpenPGP Preferences heading with GnuPG selected
Keyring
Picture 4: Choosing GnuPG as a preferred keyring
Pop up window
We need to set up how Mailvelope is going to show us decrypted messages. It often doesn’t work ideally if it’s supposed to decrypt messages right from the web mail window – so we need to set up separate Mailvelope pop up window.
Picture 5: Enabling Mailvelope popup window
And that’s all the settings you need to use Cryptoucan™ with your web mail!
Thank you very much for reading, see you next week!