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: 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

2019-10-08 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

2019-10-10 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: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-13 Thread Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users
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. How do you know this? > The vast majority of users also don't use GnuPG for > anything else than email. These users don't care where their key is > store

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

2019-10-18 Thread Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 2019-10-17 at 17:40 +0200, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > In all cases, we certainly won't re-write GnuPG or similar. The > question > on the table is: do we continue to use GnuPG (be it directly or via > gpgme), or do we use a different OpenPGP implementation (and if yes > which one). There a

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: FAQ change

2019-10-21 Thread Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 2019-10-22 at 00:59 +0100, MFPA via Gnupg-users wrote: > Hi > > On Monday 21 October 2019 at 6:09:17 AM, in > , Robert J. > Hansen wrote:- > > > Due to Yahoo! Groups closing, the PGPNET mailing list > > has moved to > > groups.io; > > I thought PGPNET's move was prompted by degraded perf