[Cryptography] Anyone know of crypto hooks in webmail systems?

[Henry Baker]

At 07:59 AM 6/17/2015, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>Webmail is beginning to dominate. But adding end to end crypto to Webmail is hard. Various platforms tout their extensibility. But finding a single line of documentation is hard. And the documentation provided tends to be pretty useless.
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>Extending webmail to handle OpenPGP or S/MIME or the next nest thing should be fairly straightforward:
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>On reading: Just spawn off a separate viewer for the content type.
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>On composing: Activate the compose pane in a separate process so that Web content can't see what is being done.
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>Anyone know of these or similar hooks?

Doesn't CryptoCat do its encryption in Javascript, so if you trust Javascript & your browser (ha ha), then there's no leakage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocat