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Encrypt Your Email With GPG, Thunderbird, and Enigmail

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Nick Congleton
Apr 1, 2017

Encrypting everything online is becoming more important by the day. Email is no different. For Linux users, the process is actually very simple with three common open source tools; Mozilla Thunderbird, Enigmail, and GNU PGP(GPG.) Through the use of these three tools, you can send and receive encrypted messages easily, and protect yourself and the people you’re communicating with from attackers and privacy invasions.

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