steven36 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Mozilla's mail reader Thunderbird has implemented a feature first requested 21 years ago. The somewhat garbled request – "I'd appreciate a plugin for PGP to ede and encrypt PGP crypted messages directly in Mozilla" [sic] – appears to have gone unimplemented due to concerns about US laws that bar export of encryption, debate about whether PGP was the right way to do crypto, and other matters besides. Thunderbird eventually chose to use Enigmail and its implementation of OpenPGP public key email encryption. However, it was an add-on rather than integrated. Commenters in the Bugzilla thread stemming from the request kept the dream of an integrated solution alive, though. Then in October 2019, the Thunderbird blog announced that Thunderbird 78 "will add built-in functionality for email encryption and digital signatures using the OpenPGP standard." Thunderbird 78 emerged in July 2020, and late in August Thunderbird contributor Kai Engert (:KaiE:) posted: "We have released support for OpenPGP email in Thunderbird version 78.2.1. Marking fixed." Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Which one are you using under linux? Looks like with the enigmail add-on it's stuck at v68.10 in mint repository Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted September 19, 2020 Author Share Posted September 19, 2020 1 hour ago, mp68terr said: Which one are you using under linux? Looks like with the enigmail add-on it's stuck at v68.10 in mint repository I just use e2e providers with my own webapps i made with with ICE from Peppermint with a Firefox backend I never installed a mail reader because i only use E2E . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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