One of my pet peeves with gmail is that it doesn’t have native support for GnuPG. I don’t think email encryption will ever achieve widespread adoption unless it’s built in to a major webmail client. Since Google’s philosophy of doing no evil seems at least somewhat close to doing something good, I was hopeful that they would find a way to get it to work. Of course, that didn’t happen. I suspect that it was and is because they want to be able to scan the text of your emails to provide you targeted advertising. I don’t really know because I don’t use gmail that often.

However, there was an article that caught my eye on Linux.com about a new Firefox plugin called FireGPG that allows someone to use GnuPG with their gmail client. I haven’t tried it yet, but it really looks legit. Also, I’ve been looking for something like this for so long that I couldn’t wait to announce that it does, in fact, exist. If only web-based email security wasn’t once again an afterthought…