FossaGuard: Encrypt Gmail with S/MIME

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Fossa Guard enables end-to-end S/MIME encryption on top of Gmail® complementing it with industry standard privacy

Latest reviews

• (2022-06-10) Franci Šacer: Worked before but now it cannot detect logged in user in gmail it seems, cause it says I am logged in with null
• (2021-01-19) Carlos C.: Puedes leer la valoración en español mas abajo. [ENGLISH] The good ... -You can sign the emails with the certificate that they generate and it is well integrated into Gmail. - You can include your own certificate (I haven't tried it) The bad ... - The certificate with which it is signed is not recognized as valid by mail clients (for example Thunderbird) because it is not issued by a trusted CA. Not good not bad ... - The permits that must be given are many, but at least they seem reasonable. - I don't trust uploading my own certificate to a server. The summary... - If the certificates were issued by a trusted CA I would use it, but sending emails that carry a certificate notice seems ugly to me. I can't ask my senders to include a CA on their computers because I'm going to send them emails. [ESPAÑOL] Lo bueno ... -Puedes firmar los correos con el certificado que te generan y está bien integrado en Gmail. - Puedes incluir tu propio certificado (no lo he probado) Lo malo ... - El certificado con el que se firma no es reconocido como válido por los clientes de correo (por ejemplo Thunderbird) porque no lo emite una CA de confianza. Ni bueno ni malo ... - Los permisos que hay que darle son muchos, pero al menos parecen razonables. - No me fio de subir un certificado emitido para mi email por una CA de confianza a un servidor. Debería poder dar la opción de firmar en local. El resumen... - Si los certificados estuviesen emitidos por una CA de confianza la usaría, pero enviar emails que llevan un aviso de certificado me parece feo. No puedo pedirle a mis remitentes que incluyan una CA en sus equipos porque yo les vaya a enviar emails.
• (2018-07-28) Nathan Kaiser: it just doesn't work. It's just too complicated. Tried this, tried that, free version, paid - it would just never work, always something new coming up. Not mature yet.
• (2018-04-12) Marco Uras: beim schreiben der Empfänger-Email ploppt nur kurz ein Fenster auf um das Konto auszuwählen. So kann man keine Mail schreiben.
• (2017-11-01) William Stewart: I had high hopes for this but entering email addresses by hand (instead of them popping up as they do in Gmail) was an issue, complicated by the email address always showing one less letter than I actually typed. That was quite annoying. ***UPDATE: This aspect suddenly started working properly after exiting my browser and restarting it, and logging in to Chrome again. *** I then attempted to send an email from within the extension, and it warned me that it would be sent unencrypted and asked me if I wanted to continue. I chose to continue but it then failed telling me that the recipient wasn't secure (diff wording). So it could not even send an email out insecurely. This has proven to be frustrating and a waste of my time. Too bad.
• (2017-03-29) Ariel Sandberg-Maitland: This is a great start. Just playing with it for a bit and I was able to send smime encrypted between my work and gmail email. Needed to figure out how to add my work smime cert as a trusted endpoint. I see I have a fossa smime cert in my windows key store. I will see what happens later when trying to setup on a different computer. I suppose I could backup and import my fossa smime cert. Great Job. This is pretty good. I don't think there is much out there like this. Keep up the great work!
• (2017-02-09) Did not work. Perhaps because I was using gmail to read emails of different account? idk. Regardless even after installing smime.p7m is still attached and I can't view even after installing the extension.
• (2016-11-27) Stanton McCandlish: Nice start, but three-month certs and 100KB max attachment size doesn't cut it, nor does the Fossa window closing itself if you type your passphrase wrong even one time. I look forward to giving this 5 stars after it's out of beta and such issues are ironed out. I'm impressed by the seamless integration.
• (2016-09-23) Michał Patrzałek: Is there a way to make this extension work in Opera?
• (2016-08-02) Maxim Sokolov: It works! Finally I've got free S/MIME implementation for GMail with attachments support.
• (2016-08-01) Marcel Schnirring: Finally a S/MIME solution for Gmail in Chrome! I am looking forward to add the possibility to use own certificates! Further, I couldn't find a way to verify signatures from Emails I receive... Keep on with your work, there are many people waiting for it!

Latest issues

• (2021-02-27, v:0.4.19) R. Pascal Laub: Generating fossa.me cert
  Hi, I tried with Chrome and Firefox app to generate a fossa cert but I end up with redirect_uri_mismatch from google as soon as I click on "sign in at fossa server to retrieve [the shared secret]". I also uploaded my WiseID certificate and trusted their root ca and the correct ca note for my certificate but when I try to activate it for using it states "that is not a correct fossa certificate". So I can't use certs which are not from fossa?
• (2020-07-07, v:0.4.19) Mallesh A: Is there a way that i can manually add the certificate of my recipient?
  While adding my another email address in "to" address bar, i see that there is no certificate available for that email. SO, is there any way that i can upload a certificate for that recipient email, so that it works smooth?
• (2020-06-12, v:0.4.19) Irish Mae Anoos: MIME Email Exchanges
  Hi Fossa team, If ever I will add Fossa extension to enable mime emails in my gmail account, will the recipients that do not have Fossa add-on can read it? How can I enable seamless email (with mime) exchanges with non-fossa users? Please help clarify. Thank you.
• (2019-02-07, v:0.4.3) Murat Bugan: About Fossaguard
  Hi, I installed the Fossaguard plugin. But when it comes to digitally signed e-mail, I can't open it. When I create a digitally signed mail, I can open it. Should this plugin be installed on both sides? Murat.
• (2017-11-16, v:0.3.5) Martyn Hanmore: Certificate Storage
  Hi, One of your replies indicates that Certificates are synched when logging into a different Chrome browser. Does that mean private keys are kept in the cloud? If a Google account is compromised then encrypted emails should at least be safe, but cloud Certificate storage would give them to the hacker too... better to make people take proper care of their keys! thanks Martyn
• (2017-10-30, v:0.3.5) Souza's Tax & Accounting: Level of Encryption
  What is the encryption bit level?
• (2017-08-09, v:0.3.4) Brian Dixon: Unable to access Extension Options Page in Chrome
  Hello! I've tried installing the Fossa Guard Chrome extension on a Win10 Enterprise and MacOS Sierra platform, and in both instances I am unable to open the Options page for the Fossa Guard extension.. and I'm not certain how I am supposed to configure your product, if I can't get to the Options/Config page. Win10 is running Chrome Version 60.0.3112.90 (Official Build) (64-bit), and MacOS is running Version 59.0.3071.115 (Official Build) (64-bit). I'm not seeing anything published about this sort of issue.. so any help would be very much appreciated! Thank you, --Brian
• (2017-05-30, v:0.3.3) Search through encrypted mails
  Will I be able to search through the encrypted mail I received/sent?
• (2017-04-17, v:0.3.3) Krissy C: Will this work for OWA on Chrome?
  Hello, I need to view an e-mail on an OWA server (not gmail) that was encrypted. Will this extension work outside of gmail? Thank you.
• (2017-03-31, v:0.3.3) Marvin Lindsay: Shared Secret
  How do you generate a new Shared Secret?
• (2017-03-29, v:0.3.3) Ariel Sandberg-Maitland: Decrypting Email
  Prompts me for my Key Pass. I click done and it does nothing... I have added Endpoint & their Root CA's and Sub Ca's as trusted.
• (2017-03-29, v:0.3.3) Ariel Sandberg-Maitland: When replying to, stuck at parsing...
  Trying to reply to a signed email. and it is stuck at Parsing... I trusted the Root and Sub Ca of the user's Smime cert. Then I replied. THanks
• (2017-03-21, v:0.3.3) Naavi FDPPI: Resetting passphrase
  What is the procedure for resetting the passphrase?
• (2017-03-18, v:0.3.3) Ohad Hershkovitz: using existing keys
  can i import existing keys (e.g. mailvelope) instead of creating and sharing new keys?