Mailvelope

Mailvelope is a browser extension for Google Chrome and Firefox that allows secure email communication based on the OpenPGP standard. It can be configured to work with arbitrary Webmail provider.

OpenPGP backends

Mailvelope uses the following OpenPGP implementation

OpenPGP.js for the Chrome Extension and for the Firefox Addon

Status

Chrome Extension: beta
Firefox Addon: beta

Installation

Mailvelope is available in the Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kajibbejlbohfaggdiogboambcijhkke

Check the releases section for latest builds of Firefox and Chrome installation packages.

Build instructions

If you don’t have grunt and bower installed, yet:

npm install -g grunt-cli bower

and then get and build the sources:

git clone git://github.com/toberndo/mailvelope.git
cd mailvelope
git submodule update --init
cd dep/chrome/openpgpjs
npm install && grunt
cd ../../firefox/openpgpjs
npm install && grunt
cd ../../..
npm install && bower install && grunt

Chrome

grunt dist-cr

The extension will be in dist/mailvelope.chrome.zip.

Firefox

grunt dist-ff

This will get you the latest firefox addons-sdk to build the addon.

The addon will be in dist/mailvelope.firefox.xpi.

Development

Update your local repository:

# inside mailvelope folder
cd dep/chrome/openpgpjs
git pull origin master && grunt
cd ../../firefox/openpgpjs
git pull origin master && grunt
cd ../../..
grunt
# continue with 'grunt dist-cr' or 'grunt dist-ff'

There are a few more tasks available through grunt:

watch source code for changes and recompile if needed:

grunt watch
reset repository

grunt clean

Website

http://www.mailvelope.com

Licence

Use of this source code is governed by the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE that can be found in the LICENSE file.

About

written by Thomas Oberndörfer toberndo@yarkon.de
Blog: http://www.chasinclouds.com/
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