{"id":6378,"date":"2017-01-25T12:12:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/01\/25\/news-216\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T12:12:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:12:52","slug":"news-216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/01\/25\/news-216\/","title":{"rendered":"GPG Suite updated for secure email on OSX Sierra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zapt1.staticworld.net\/images\/article\/2016\/11\/technology-1283624-100696511-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> GPG Suite, an application that brings encrypted email to Mac OS, is now available in public beta for Sierra. <\/p>\n<p> The software package had been compatible up to El Capitan but wasn&#8217;t working with Sierra, which was released by Apple in September. The new software can now be downloaded from the <a href=\"https:\/\/gpgtools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GPG Tools website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> It adds support for the OpenPGP encryption standard, which is an open-source version of the PGP encryption package first developed in 1991. <\/p>\n<p> Four software apps are contained in the package: <\/p>\n<p> &#8212; GPG Mail is a plugin for Apple Mail that allows users to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify mails sent using OpenPGP. <\/p>\n<p> &#8212; GPG Keychain is a manager for encryption and decryption keys. <\/p>\n<p> &#8212; GPG Services is a plugin that adds GPG encryption to many other applications, and MacGPG is the software that ties it all together. <\/p>\n<p> OpenPGP is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2885191\/private-i-encrypting-email-with-public-keys.html\" target=\"_blank\">public-key encryption system<\/a>, which requires users to create two keys. A public key that is shared widely and a private key that is kept confidential. <\/p>\n<p> Under the system, a user, Alice, encrypts a message to a second user, Bob, using Bob&#8217;s public key. Once done, it can be decrypted only by using Bob&#8217;s private key. <\/p>\n<p> In the last several months, encrypted messaging has gotten a higher profile. WhatsApp began encrypting all messages by default in 2016, and secure SMS app Signal has seen a rise in users in the weeks since Donald Trump was elected president of the U.S. <\/p>\n<p> The encryption used in all the systems means messages are kept secure as they traverse the internet and telecom networks to their recipient. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3161223\/encryption\/gpg-suite-updated-for-secure-email-on-osx-sierra.html#tk.rss_security\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/category\/security\/index.rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zapt1.staticworld.net\/images\/article\/2016\/11\/technology-1283624-100696511-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<article>\n<section class=\"page\">\n<p> GPG Suite, an application that brings encrypted email to Mac OS, is now available in public beta for Sierra.<\/p>\n<p> The software package had been compatible up to El Capitan but wasn&#8217;t working with Sierra, which was released by Apple in September. The new software can now be downloaded from the <a href=\"https:\/\/gpgtools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GPG Tools website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> It adds support for the OpenPGP encryption standard, which is an open-source version of the PGP encryption package first developed in 1991.<\/p>\n<p> Four software apps are contained in the package:<\/p>\n<p> &#8212; GPG Mail is a plugin for Apple Mail that allows users to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify mails sent using OpenPGP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"\/article\/3161223\/encryption\/gpg-suite-updated-for-secure-email-on-osx-sierra.html#jump\">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[11062,10643],"tags":[11063,10439,714],"class_list":["post-6378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computerworld","category-independent","tag-data-privacy","tag-encryption","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}