1 Topic by berland

(1 replies, posted in Requests)

Hello,

I would like to suggest 2 things here, that would add very useful functionality to FireGPG.

At first, would it be possible to add an alternative way of how text is being input into a text box? Instead of typing text into a text box directly, that has to be selected and is encrypted afterwards, I would like to have a FireGPG text input window open up on demand. The Text typed into that window would be encrypted/signed in the same window and only afterwards inserted into the text box. That alone would be a good way to circumvent the problem of auto-saving web sites like Google Notes.

Additionally it would be wonderful, if FireGPG would allow the user to create different encryption/signing profiles using the original command line arguments. For different web sites I would like to use different comments and (hidden) recipients etc.

This could be done by simply creating a list of appropriate gpg commands (like e.g. "gpg2 --no-encrypt-to --no-comments -r DEADBEEF"), that would then be chosen from a drop-down menu in the text input window. Of course, there have to be buttons for encryption and signing to complete the command. Also there should be an option for each profile to choose whether to skip the key selection dialog, because you could do that in the gpg command itself.

I think this would add security and a lot of convenience, that is not yet being offered by any graphical tool I know. So far, though, FireGPG doesn't do more than KGpg. Maybe that's a motivation for you. smile

Thank you for your efforts with this extension.

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2 Reply by berland

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Hi,

and thank you for your reply.

I really didn't expect it to be too slow and I'm quite surprised. I don't know anything about programming, but looking at filtering proxies, filtering Firefox extensions and even Greasemonkey scripts, it doesn't seem to be so hard to analyze (and alter) webpages before displaying them. Isn't all the extension would have to look out for the "-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----" lines? I thought it couldn't be easier with those wonderfully distinct Begin and End lines.

I didn't consider that decrypting of several encrypted texts might take some time, especially if keys have to be searched for and downloaded first. Automatic decryption could thus be in the way every now and then. Having a button to decrypt everything on a page, that you have to click first, would do the trick though.

If I really understand you correctly and you think it is impossible to find the ascii blocks on a website, would it at least be possible to make the selection of those blocks easier? I would find it comfortable to just click somewhere between the Begin and the End line and have the extension selecting the whole block for me.


A question that is unanswered so far is, whether it would be possible to not show the decrypted text in a new window, but rather set it in place on the website.

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3 Topic by berland

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Hi,

thanks to some peer pressure, I am finally registered at facebook now. It seems that a lot of people are very concerned about their privacy there, but continue to use the service.

I was thinking, that you could easily use GPG on facebook, if there was a way to automatically decrypt any messages that appear on a website. You could start using GPG on a website like facebook right away, if you were willing to do a lot of copying & pasting, but nobody wants to decrypt a "wall" post by post.

So I am hoping that you guys are able to implement something that would do the job. The extension should either try to decrypt every encrypted message on a web page or you could add a button next to each detected message to decrypt it (maybe both and make it an option).

I really hope that you guys are considering this, because it could be so useful.

Thanks for reading.

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