Chrome Encryption Plugin Released

Software developers have released a JavaScript version of OpenPGP the Open Source encryption software that acts as a plugin for Google Chrome.

GPG4Browsers is currently available only as an extension for the Google Chrome browser for integration with Gmail. It works with all asymmetric and symmetric ciphers and hash functions specified in the formal OpenPGP standard, with the exception of the IDEA algorithm. It is compatible with the GnuPG implementation of OpenPGP.

The prototype implementation can be used to encrypt and decrypt messages, digitally sign messages and verify the signatures of received messages, and import and export keys. It doesn’t support the generation or manipulation of keys or work with messages that are symmetric-only encrypted.