PrivateMail is the easiest way to begin encrypting your emails. With a few clicks, you can start sending encrypted emails!

You may or may not have heard of an email encryption scheme called PGP. It's been keeping emails away from prying eyes for decades, but have you started using it yet? PrivateMail is a Google Chrome plugin that does the hard work for you to encrypt your emails with PGP. Do you want spying eyes to be able to read your emails? If you are here, chances are you don't.

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PGP is an encryption standard that works by using a public key and a private key. Your public key is shared freely and can only be used to encrypt messages and verify signatures. Your private key is stored on your computer and secured with your passphrase, and it is used to decrypt emails and create signatures. Choose a long passphrase that's hard to guess to make this protocol more secure. Encrypted emails show up as text identified as PGP encrypted with a message inside that looks like gibberish to a person, but it can easily be decrypted using only the recipient's unlocked private key.