pretty easy privacy

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pretty easy privacy

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Basic data

Maintainer Leon Schumacher, Volker Birk
developer pEp Security SA (Luxembourg), pEp Security AG (Switzerland), pEp Foundation (Switzerland)
Publishing year 2012
operating system Cross-platform
category Encryption
License GNU General Public License
www.pep.security

Easy pretty privacy (abbreviated p≡p or PEP) or German Pretty simple privacy is an open-source - Encryption software that allows users to protect their online communications out intrusive glances. The necessary processes are automated.

p≡p automatically generates a key pair for the user or imports it from a local PGP ( Pretty Good Privacy ) client. The software also encrypts communication if the recipient has installed a different PGP or S / MIME client than p≡p. The pEp engine is a crypto user engine that supports GnuPG and NetPGP as backends .

Citizens' movement p≡p coop

The p≡p coop is a European association which aims to protect privacy in the digital world with the developed by its members encryption tools to protect online communications (mail, chat, messages, contacts, calendar, Web links, search engine queries, etc.). The founding members include a. the sociologist Wilhelm Heitmeyer and the writers Marc-Uwe Kling , Sibylle Berg and Juli Zeh .

The pEp project

The pEp project aims to automatically secure all written digital forms of communication, regardless of the operating system and application. For this purpose, encryption adapters, add-ons and apps for various operating systems and mail programs based on a common pEp engine were developed. The project is funded by the non-profit Swiss pEp Foundation .

p≡p engine and adapter

The p≡p engine is a free program library that contains functions for key management , trust rating and an abstract cryptography API. It coordinates the automatic key management, the encryption and decryption, the signature and the transport of text messages for every software based on p≡p. In order to achieve a high level of portability, the p≡p engine was written in the C99 programming language. The p≡p engine implements formats, uses cryptography, manages keys and controls the transmission of messages. Part of the p≡p engine distribution is a replacement for GnuPG, NetPGP-et, a PGP implementation for platforms on which GnuPG is not available. Developers of add-ons, plug-ins, apps or desktop applications do not have to deal with the cryptographic functionalities via which the p≡p engine is accessible, because the provision of a p≡p adapter as a simple API in the language and the The development environment of the application programmer is sufficient. Various adapters are already available from the p≡p Foundation under the GNU GPL v3 license , e.g. B. a Qt , an iOS, a COM server and a JNI adapter.

p≡p uses a four-level color and symbol coding in all implementations, which indicates the degree of privacy with a certain contact in general and a certain message specifically.

Versions

Apps have been published for Android and Apple iOS - also via F-Droid , for Outlook there is a paid version as an add-in. As part of the Enigmail extension ( add-on ) for Mozilla Thunderbird , p≡p has been available since March 2018. This means that p≡p can be used on PCs for the most common desktop operating systems.

Further versions for the encryption of WhatsApp , Twitter or Facebook communication are planned as extensions for web browsers ( Safari , Chrome , Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox ).

Enigmail

In September 2015, Patrick Brunschwig (project manager of Enigmail) and Volker Birk (chief developer of p≡p) announced that Enigmail and the Swiss p≡p foundation were working on a joint project called Enigmail / p≡p . The aim of Enigmail / p≡p should be the (fully) automatic encryption of e-mails without user intervention while at the same time being compatible with OpenPGP and S / MIME as well as easy integration into existing infrastructure such as Thunderbird .

Starting with version 2.0 from the end of March 2018, the Enigmail / p≡p mode is in its first productive version . It is used automatically for all new Enigmail users. Existing users can switch to pp mode.

Code audit

In October 2016, the p≡p Foundation presented the results of a company SektionEins conducted before code audits.

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ pretty Easy Privacy - encrypt Whatsapp. And Facebook messages. Even with Outlook. In: netzpolitik.org . September 15, 2014, accessed July 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Domain of the p≡p coop.
  3. ^ Founding members.
  4. ↑ pEp-whitepaper.pdf Privacy by Default. White paper. (v1.0.5) (PDF; 415 kB) In: pep.foundation, July 18, 2016, accessed on April 7, 2020.
  5. ↑ p≡p Documentation. In: pep.security. Retrieved June 2, 2018 .
  6. ↑ pretty easy privacy p≡p. In: Google Play . Retrieved June 2, 2018 .
  7. ↑ p≡p for Android (in f-droid). In: f-Droid . Retrieved June 22, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Source code for p≡p for iOS. In: pep-security.ch. Retrieved June 22, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Volker Birk: Pretty Easy Privacy - Encrypt Whatsapp. And Facebook messages. Even with Outlook. In: Netzpolitik.org . September 15, 2014, accessed June 22, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Enigmail and p≡p are partnering. In: Enigmail.net. Enigmail , September 7, 2015, accessed December 25, 2016 .
  11. ↑ 2018-03-25 Enigmail v2.0 released. In: Enigmail.net. Enigmail , March 25, 2018, accessed June 22, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Enigmail 2 with pretty easy privacy (p≡p) support by default for new users. In: pep.foundation. p≡p foundation, April 3, 2018, accessed on June 22, 2018 (English).
  13. ↑ Code audit. In: Heise online . Verlag Heinz Heise , October 17, 2016, accessed on October 17, 2016 .