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by aw3c2 5470 days ago
I want this for general posts on Facebook!
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OTR is only suitable for real time communication. For posting messages on facebook (as for email) you would use PGP. This used to be possible using Firefox with the FireGPG Addon, but the developer stopped working on it and a release wasn't even made for Firefox 4.

FireGPG was brilliant. It would detect blocks of PGP in the page, and add "Decrypt/Verify" links to the appropriate place in the page, and would let you easily encrypt/sign data. I can't believe nobody took over development. I keep meaning to learn how to write Firefox addons specifically so I can take up this project, but I haven't found the time.

But PGP gives the wrong guarantees.
Yes and no. Depending on what "guarantees" you're looking for.
If the author of the root comment wants something like "OTR for Facebook" they probably wouldn't like the guarantees that PGP gives.

But Facebook and privacy don't mix anyway.