Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-08 Thread Patrick Brunschwig
The Thunderbird developers have announced that they will implement OpenPGP support in Thunderbird 78 [1]. Support for Thunderbird in Enigmail will therefore be discontinued. I'd like to explain in the following paragraphs what this will mean for Enigmail, and why this is an inevitable step. The F

Re: How to improve our GUIs

2019-10-08 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Mon 07/Oct/2019 12:04:33 +0200 Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote: > On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 21:21, vedaal said: > >> and then a separate option of >> "Export Secret Keys" > > The OP explictly suggested to make the exporting of the secret key not > too easy so that users don't accidently send out t

gpg.conf for use with gpg-1.4x and -2.2x...

2019-10-08 Thread gnupgpacker
Hello, are there recommendations or samples for common gpg.conf file out there for secure and convenient use with v2.x *and* v1.4? On my system GPG-2.x (Gpg4win) and GPG-1.4x (GpgRelay) are both used, so compatibility is eligible. Thx + regards, Chris

Re: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-08 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > The Thunderbird developers have announced that they will implement > OpenPGP support in Thunderbird 78 [1]. Support for Thunderbird in > Enigmail will therefore be discontinued. [snip] > The Thunderbird developers and I have therefore agreed that it's much > better to

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-08 Thread halfdog
Phillip Susi writes: > > Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users writes: > > The original poster, perhaps unintentionally, stated the real reason the > > masses have not adopted PGP, "Please do appreciate that the persons who > > we are convincing and instructing are not particularly interested in > > privacy.

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 do appreciate that the persons who we are convincing an

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-08 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 15:49:35 -0400, Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users stated: >On 10/7/19 9:32 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: >> Bingo! And as long as the user is not interested in it, and won't >> learn how to properly use it, all they will get is the veneer of >> privacy and learn the hard way that they

Re: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-08 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
While having OpenPGP support directly in Thunderbird is probably a good thing, I found it convenient to just use the gpg kerys for Email encryption and signing (and conversely, being able to just use keys imported via Enigmail to encrypt files using gpg). It would be really nice, if Thunderbird cou

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-08 Thread Tony Lane via Gnupg-users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/8/19 9:21 AM, Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users wrote: > On 10/7/19 4:59 PM, Sheogorath via Gnupg-users wrote: >> Protonmail on the other hand is able to speak OpenPGP, they just don't >> do it. Not even when you answer to a OpenPGP encrypted email, w

Re: gpg.conf for use with gpg-1.4x and -2.2x...

2019-10-08 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> are there recommendations or samples for common gpg.conf file out there for > secure and convenient use with v2.x *and* v1.4? Not really. Name them gpg.conf-1 and gpg.conf-2. GnuPG 2 will use the -2 file, GnuPG 1.4 will use the -1 file. ___ Gnupg-us

Re: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-08 Thread Andrew Gallagher
> On 9 Oct 2019, at 04:47, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: > > It would be really nice, if Thunderbird could add an option to use the > gpg key storage instead of its own, but so far the developers want to > always keep the Thunderbird key storage separately (thoug they are > considering functiona