Mark wrote on 30.05.2020 20:54: > So then do you have multiple pairs of key rings? One pair for TB78 and > its built in PGP and another pair as part of GNUPG?
No exactly. You have your secret keys with GnuPG, and your public keys with Thunderbird. No synchronization required. -Patrick > > If so how do you keep them synchronized? > > On 5/30/2020 9:17 AM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: >> Robert J. Hansen wrote on 30.05.2020 01:07: >>>> If TB 78 is going to have native support of openGPG encryption, then the >>>> original person in the thread should be able to export all of the keys >>>> in their key rings, and import all of those keys into TB 78, or am I >>>> missing one of the gotchas with >>>> TV 78 and it's openGPG encryption support. >>> You're missing the gotcha of "as of -Beta3, the new Thunderbird *cannot >>> even import a key*." >> I'm sorry, but that is simply not true. There is a known bug in the >> library used by Thunderbird (RNP) that leads to crashes when importing >> _certain_ keys. But I succeeded in importing all of my keys without any >> problems (more than 1.000), except for 5 V3-keys. I can definitely say >> that it's not just broken, and it can import keys. >> >>> I'm not kidding. It is so far from complete that Kai Englert, who leads >>> the TB78 OpenPGP effort, recently proposed postponing OpenPGP support in >>> TB until version 78.2, or about a three-month delay. >> Again, that's oversimplified. OpenPGP will not be enabled _by_ _default_ >> but users may still enable it manually. >> >>> At present, as of -Beta3, TB78's OpenPGP support is badly broken. >> No, it's incomplete - work in progress. That's not quite the same. >> >> -Patrick >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gnupg-users mailing list >> Gnupg-users@gnupg.org >> http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
