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I have previously covered various encryption apps for your Chromebook. I have not reviewed encrypted email. The recent Yahoo hack just shows that email encryption is vital on personal documents and certain conversations. End-to-end encryption for email is not easy for new users. Perhaps an app can resolve this issue. I want to say thanks to Mike Ferrari again for directing me towards another tool to add to my arsenal. The app that resolves this issue is CryptUP. This app will work in Chrome or Chromium Browsers. It is found in the Chrome Web Store.
When you install the app, you have several GUI prompts that help set up the app. After clicking the UP button in the corner of the GUI, the process (below left) begins.
Click on the Connect to Gmail.
Click the new encryption key (bottom right) and create a passphrase. The passphrase must be extremely strong (top right).
The setup is done and the default layout of CryptUP is apparent.
Now it is time to compose an encrypted email (next page, top left). Click on New Email and a new popup GUI appears. I will send a text message to my old Yahoo account. I enter in some basic text and can choose an encryption method: challenge question or pubkey. I chose the question route, where I entered the question and answer. I then sent the message off to the Yahoo account.
The message arrives in the Yahoo account. It has a serious amount of random gibberish in the text, but I have an opportunity to answer the challenge question by clicking the blue link.
I answer the question, and the encrypted message populates. The encrypted message populates below.
CryptUP is extremely easy to set up and use. While working with the app, I chose to remove the app from my Chromebook. This sent a message to the developer asking me to review CryptUP that resulted in a quick email chat with the creator: Tom James Holub. Per Tom, there are several future updates to this app. See a quick quote below.
There will be some good stuff coming out in the upcoming weeks – like sending encrypted attachments to people who don't have encryption set up. People without encryption will also be able to send an encrypted response back in their browser. It will also start using Ethereum blockchain as a public key server.
This app deserves a four out of four stars. This is an app that would be useful for many individuals on a personal or professional level. Your email account could be hacked, but the encryption would prevent full exposure. It is always wise not to store personal or sensitive information in your email account. However at times this rule has to be broken.