iPGMail - Email Encryption on your iOS Device
Although there does not appear to be as well-integrated an approach to email encryption on iPhone as there is for Android in K9/APG, there is a fully functional approach which is relatively simple to setup. Unfortunately this is a paid app (iPGMail - $1.99) but it seems to be the cheapest of the available options.
Research credit for this article goes to: Dr. Patrick Reardon
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Begin by purchasing iPGMail (http://ipgmail.com/).
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Export your private key into a text file (See the guide if you wish to create a new keypair http://ipgmail.com/?page_id=103). In Thunderbird with Enigmail you can export this private key and your stored public keys by doing
OpenPGP then Key Manger
and thenFile then Export Keys to File
. Make sure that the file output is ASCII Armored -
Place the resulting textfile onto a computer with iTunes. Note - You can also email yourself this private key or use Dropbox, but both of these options increase the risk of your private key leaking!
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Follow the remaining instructions on the iPGMail site - http://ipgmail.com/?page_id=103
Hopefully the use of iPGMail will prove to be fairly simple, however I will look into creating an article about its use in the near future.
Comments
Just a clarification, private PGP keypairs *can* be created inside of the iPGMail app. They can also be imported and exported as you mention. Contact me if you decide to do a writeup and have any questions.
Updated to reflect this.