Enigform

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Enigform is a Mozilla Firefox extension authored by Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman which uses GnuPG to implement OpenPGP-signed HTTP requests. As of June/2007, OpenPGP encryption is being implemented. Some people believe it to be an alternative for the Secure Sockets Layer method for encrypting Hypertext Transfer Protocol (or HTTP) connections. However, the author never had such an intention in his mind. Guaranteeing the identity of a requester and the integrity of the request is Enigform's primary goal, through the use of digital signatures. In this instance, requests are form submissions to web servers. Apache HTTP server support via the mod_auth_openpgp module currently supports request verification.

Vinton Cerf said that Enigform and mod_openpgp "[this] strikes me as a really interesting idea and I hope you (Buanzo) will pursue it with the W3C." (February 18, 2008).