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How To Use Mailvelope

Tuesday, December 3, 201311:0417,100 viewsWatch on YouTube

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hi this is Charles Hoskinson director of the Bitcoin education project and chief executive officer of NEX cryptography today we're going to go ahead and discuss how to go ahead and use PGP effectively with Melville Oh PGP was invented in the early 90s by a gentleman named Philip Zimmerman and basically what he wanted to do was come up with a way to encrypt emails without using any really special software and a very friction seamless way unfortunately at the time most of the people who used email were fairly computer savvy and they were willing to embrace a lot more complexity than your end user typically does today so although PGP actually works and it's cryptography is incredibly elegant very powerful it generally does not have a lot of mainstream usage that said there's been a browser extension that was recently created called Melville op' which I will teach you how to install and use today which I think makes the process significantly simpler and also if you are using it with your friends family and others we'll actually go ahead and make your emails completely NSA proof regardless of how much money they invest in trying to figure out what you're doing for the most part so let's go ahead and get started if you click right here in the upper right hand corner of Google Chrome you can click on tools and extensions and you'll see down here get more extensions click on that and go ahead and enter in the store Melville up MA il de ello PE and you'll see this extension right here Melville op' I already have it installed so it says added to Chrome if not you're just going to go ahead and click up there and it'll just take a moment to install after you've installed it go ahead in the upper right hand corner click on Melville oh click on options and the first thing you're going to see is Melville op' options documentation about and a bunch of options down here display keys and Porky's generate keys general security and watchlist and so forth so don't care much about these guys this is the functioning area of Melville oh so Melville op' currently works with Gmail Yahoo Outlook and GM X in the future they'll probably support more email clients it does not work with Outlook nor does it work with Thunderbird so any desktop mail client that you physically install Melville up will not work with but if you're using a mail client in the cloud meaning you actually have Outlook or outlook from Outlook calm or Gmail or so forth this will work quite nicely ok so I'll assume that you guys are on gmail yahoo gmx or outlook.com and we're going to go ahead and use Gmail to send an email so you see I have a key right here with Charles dot Hoskinson that's my email address and what we're going to go ahead and do is generate a new key for another email address I currently control and I'm gonna call this person Satoshi and that particular email address is Satoshi archive at gmail.com and I'll go ahead and enter a passphrase ok and you just click Submit and I'll say hey I have to go ahead and wait on a while to generate it because there's a lot of enter entropy being generated from the screencast it generates quickly but sometimes can take up to a minute to go ahead and generate the your key ok so it went ahead and generated a key for mr.

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