Am 06.11.2018 12:48 schrieb Nicholas Papadonis:
Does anyone have suggestions on the most secure and reviewed
combination for bits for sending secure email on OS X?
I noticed that there are two OSX packages for GPG:
Mac GPG Installer from the gpgtools project
GnuPG for OS X Installer for GnuPG
Is any one preferred, have more eyes reviewing source, better release
management in terms of security concerns? Any details? Am I better
off building from source?
Well, i never have read that GnuPG had a security audit, regardless
of platform used, nor the plug-ins for various apps.
For example recently Enigmal for Thunderbird had a fatal security
bug which send encrypted email unencrypted under Windows.
You can build from source, which i did also in the past or use for
example MacPorts GnuPG distribution.
I'm considering using the Mac Mail.app, however am interested if
Thunderbird is better integrated from a security standpoint. At the
lowest level, my assumption is that the command line tools can be used
to encrypt / decrypt blocks of text, which I will also be interested
in using.
I used Mail.app in the past too and later switched to
Thunderbird/Eingmail.
Currently i use the GnuPG package from Patrick Brunschwieg (Enigmail
developer) in combination with Claws-Mail (MacPorts). I also use GnuPG
often as commandline tool.
Appreciate a security experts guidance immersing myself into more
secure communication.
While i am no security expert and only a Mac dummie i like the fact that
one can build from source and use it on an off-line computer, even
if the email received is in PGP/MIME format, because scripts are
available
which allows a conversion.
Regards
Stefan
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