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On 8/25/20 2:29 AM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
On 8/24/20 8:12 PM, Mark wrote:
Am I understanding this correctly, your PGP keys are no longer secured
with their passphrase and instead relies on the global master password
in Thunderbird? Does that not weaken or at least somewhat minimize the
validity of the signatures? There are numerous TB password recovery
programs out there.
Fortunately, Thunderbird will have optional support for delegating
private key actions (decrypt, sign) to an external GnuPG keyring. This
is primarily being advertised in order to support smartcards. However,
GnuPG won't care whether the private key is in the keyring directly or
used via a smartcard. ;)
See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards
I did follow the instructions in the wiki for using smartcards. I don't
actually use a smartcard, so the secret key is contained in the GnuPG
keyring that's stored on disk.
The good news is, this did work on Linux right away for three different
private keys.
Also, I'm using an offline primary key, and Thunderbird indeed
automatically finds the related sub key.
The bad news is, on Windows 10 it does not work at all. With TB78.2.0
all I get is the error 'The secret key that is required to decrypt this
message is not available' when attempting to open an encrypted message.
Gpg4Win 3.1.12 is installed, which should also include GPGME.
The wiki article states:
"You must ensure that Thunderbird 78 can find GPGME in the system
library search path."
Great, but how do I do that on Windows? What does "GPGME" even mean
here, and what exactly is Thunderbird looking for? Is it an .exe file,
or a DLL?
Also, what is the 'system library search path' on Windows? Is it the
same as the $PATH environment variable?
I've been searching for more information already, but haven't found
anything useful for Windows.
Can anyone help here?
Thanks.
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