Email and MSN Security - Encryption

Text sent via email and messenger services are often transmitted as cleartext or weak algorithms.

Use the following to secure your communications by encrypting your email and IM texts.

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One ZMAIL

Zmail is an easy-to-use interface providing email security services for the software and email address that you already have, with 128-bit strong encryption, mutual authentication providing a proven anti-phishing solution and two-factor authentication.

MailCloak

MailCloak encryption provides strong protection for your important emails, encrypting emails, attachments and drafts on Gmail, Yahoo! Mail & MSN Live Mail.

Flexcrypt

Offers email encryption, hard drive encryption, instant Message encryption, text encryption, file/folder encryption and file shredding facilities. One month Free trial.

Simplite MSN

By encrypting messages before they leave your computer to the Internet, SimpLite-MSN prevents eavesdroppers from reading your MSN Messenger conversations. If your contacts use SimpLite/SimpPro, conversations will be encrypted. Otherwise, they will remain unencrypted.

Pigdin-Encryption

Pidgin-Encryption transparently encrypts your instant messages with RSA encryption. Embeds all encryption and keys inside HTML, so if the other user doesn't have the plugin, they will get a little message telling them about the plugin, and won't get a screen full of garbage. This plugin's approach to providing this ease of use. Security is very similar to that of SSH.