10min Howto: Mobile Truecrypt (6.0a, 6.3a) for Ubuntu and Windows

Posted on 20 July 2008 - 16:00 in Privacy - Comments (1)

Storing sensitive data on an encrypted mobile device with Truecrypt.
Accessible on Ubuntu and Windows.

You need:

  • Truecrypt 6.0a or 6.3a (may work with other version too)
  • Mobile device (flash drive, ext. HDD, etc.)
  • Administrative privileges
  • 10 minutes

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5min: Encrypt Instant Messaging with Pidgin and OTR

Posted on 31 May 2008 - 19:55 in Privacy - Comments (1)

You need:

  • Pidgin (available on Ubuntu standard installation or over apt-get)
  • IM-Buddy
  • 5 minutes

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Howto: Encrypt and digitally sign mails with Thunderbird and GPG

Posted on 2 May 2008 - 19:24 in Privacy - Comments (3)

Encrypt and digitally sign your mails with GPG, Thunderbird and Enigmail on Ubuntu 8.04.

If you don’t know, what GPG is, read the introduction from the GPG mini Howto, it won’t take long.

Install Thunderbird and Enigmail, start Thunderbird and create or add an email address.

For the following operations, navigate to: OpenPGP -> Key Management

Generate a keypair with: Generate -> New Key Pair

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