We just add the freenigma toolbar to your webmail client

Again, it's simple. When you want your e-mail to be private, just click the "encrypt" button in the freenigma toolbar. When you need to decrypt a private e-mail, freenigma shows a "decrypt" button in the freenigma toolbar. Just click the buttons. Everything else is done automagically. Let's take a look at how this works:

First things first: encrypt your e-mails

When you want to send an encrypted e-mail to somebody, he/she must be a registered freenigma user, too. This means you have to invite your communication partners to freenigma. (Yes, you already know that, but I just wanted to be precise...)

Write your mail text, add the recipients, click the "encrypt" button in the freenigma toolbar. You're done. freenigma encrypts the mail and displays the cipher text of your e-mail. No, this is not a Chinese translation in the wrong character set. It's strong encryption. Strong encryption means that some really serious guy or organisation would need millions of years - even with the most powerful computers - to decrypt your message without having your key. Now you can click the "send" button.

Read encrypted e-mails

Without your freenigma key, nobody else can decrypt your e-mail. So when you receive a private e-mail which was encrypted by freenigma and you click the "decrypt" button, freenigma will ask you for your password:

freenigma will use your password to decrypt your private e-mail. Google Mail has this cool feature to show all messages of a specific e-mail conversation. freenigma supports this too! You can decrypt a complete private conversation with one click on the "decrypt" button.