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Description

Current version: 0.1

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Subrosa is a WordPress plugin that allows to encrypt the contents of your contact form via JavaScript, thus granting security from the very beginning of the transmission. Subrosa is designed to work with all WordPress contact forms, provided you install it as described below and a few requirements are met. But it has only been tested with the legacy WP Contact Form and with Contact Form ][ . So please report your experiences with other contact forms. Regarding e-mail clients, I have only tested it with Evolution so far; I’d also be glad to receive feedback concerning the mail client experience.

The Subrosa plugin is Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL .

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Before you start

Encryption can significantly improve your privacy and security. But you should have at least some basic understanding of the technology of Public Key encryption. You might want to read a nice Wikipedia article on Public Key encryption , and you will additionally find valuable information in the section Background below.

If you don’t have a PGP Key pair yet, you need to create it, for example with gpg4win , Enigmail or some other GnuPG frontend. This is not hard, and you will find advice on how to achieve this on the respective web sites.

Once you have a key pair, you can proceed with installing this plugin.

Installation

… is a 5-minutes-breeze:

Download the plugin

Unpack it and upload the folder subrosa to your plugins directory

Make sure that your theme’s header.php is not missing the wp_head() hook.

Open your contact form plugin in a text editor and replace the word mail with ctsr_mail in the call to the mail() function. (This ...

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