Title: Encryption in JavaScript?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Encryption in JavaScript?

 *  [Rodorm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rodorm/)
 * (@rodorm)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encryption-in-javascript/)
 * Wouldn’t it be better to encrypt the message on the visitor’s machine with JavaScript
   so that no unencrypted data is transmitted if the server doesn’t use https?
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 *  Plugin Author [Jason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verysimple/)
 * (@verysimple)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encryption-in-javascript/#post-3948549)
 * Yea that would be a good approach too, I’ve noticed Javascript ports of PGP starting
   to pop up lately.
 *  Thread Starter [Rodorm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rodorm/)
 * (@rodorm)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encryption-in-javascript/#post-3948550)
 * Well, plugins that implement this, already exist. wp2pgpmail is an example.
 *  [estr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estr/)
 * (@estr)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encryption-in-javascript/#post-3948553)
 * But this should be optional, as those who do use HTTPS would prefer, me at least,
   to avoid JS in this scenario.

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## Tags

 * [HTTPS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/https/)
 * [javascript](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/javascript/)
 * [PGP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pgp/)

 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [estr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estr/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encryption-in-javascript/#post-3948553)
 * Status: not a support question