Re: FAQ change

2019-10-21 Thread Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users
st the latest manifestation. Like others, we looked around and found something that worked better. My thanks to Mr. Hansen for updating our listing. Jeff Allen, PGPNET moderator ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-20 Thread Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users
On Sat, 2019-10-19 at 17:20 +0200, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users wrote on 18.10.2019 16:02: > [...] > > My take on your original explanation of the reason for Enigmail's > > pending demise is that a changed Thunderbird plug-in scheme makes >

Re: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-18 Thread Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users
hem myself. My take on your original explanation of the reason for Enigmail's pending demise is that a changed Thunderbird plug-in scheme makes it more efficient to build Enigmail functionality into the MUA. Why not stick with that and focus on what has made Enigmail successful? Jeff Al

Re: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-14 Thread Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users
On 10/14/19 3:40 AM, Binarus wrote: > > On 13.10.2019 22:27, Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users wrote: >> On 10/13/19 2:21 AM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: >>> The vast majority of users of Enigmail (somewhere around 98%) don't use >>> external built keys. >> >

Re: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-13 Thread Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users
er" thread are any indication, you'll be looking at quite a few back sides. Is there any reason to think that folks who object to easy-to-use proprietary encrypted email solutions from ProtonMail and Tutanota will embrace a proprietary encrypted email

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-10 Thread Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users
On 10/9/2019 Tony Lane wrote: > On 10/8/19 9:21 AM, Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users wrote: >> Sure it's a solution. I have accounts at both. Most of my email is not >> encrypted because, as the original poster pointed out, most people I >> communicate with are not particul

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-08 Thread Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users
On 10/7/19 4:59 PM, Sheogorath via Gnupg-users wrote: > On 9/30/19 4:38 PM, Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users wrote: >> On 9/30/19 4:58 AM, Roland Siemons wrote: >>> Dear GNUPG developers, >>> >>> We have GOT TO make things simpler. >> >>> 3/ Please d

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-05 Thread Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users
On 10/5/19 6:15 AM, Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote: > Tony Lane via Gnupg-users wrote: > >> But go ahead, please rationalize why "ease-of-use" is more important than >> actual security for power-users such as myself and those who absolutely won't >> compromise on true E2EE. > > Not to rain yo

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-09-30 Thread Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users
On 9/30/19 4:58 AM, Roland Siemons wrote: > Dear GNUPG developers, > > We have GOT TO make things simpler. > 3/ Please do appreciate that the persons who we are convincing and > instructing are not particularly interested in privacy. They need simple > approaches. ProtonMail or Tutanota. Both e

Re: ProtonMail and Anonymity

2019-05-06 Thread Jeff Allen
On 5/5/19 4:20 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Don't you think that brute-forcing a hash of a phone number would be > trivial? > It would be more trivial not to hash the number and say you did. ProtonMail claims they hash the number and store it unlinked to your account. Their stated objective is t

Re: ProtonMail and Anonymity

2019-05-05 Thread Jeff Allen
On 5/5/19 1:36 PM, Stefan Claas wrote: > On Sun, 5 May 2019 11:22:56 -0400 > Tony Lane wrote: > >> Isn't it obvious? > > I don't think so! Users new to privacy related > services may think when visiting the ProtonMail > site that they are anonymous, when seeing their > main page: > > https://pr