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Was enigmail being a plugin a showstopper before? Just curious of this perspective.
by acidburnNSA 6y ago
Was enigmail being a plugin a showstopper before? Just curious of this perspective.
- dtech 6y agoDon't underestimate the power of defaults and core functionality. If gmail support PGP, you could start to really use it, since you could be reasonably confident the recipient could read the message even if they have no idea what PGP was. For a plugin they would have to actively look for it. Unfortunately Thunderbird user base is tiny but it's something
- brnt 6y agoYes. It adheres to the original six levels of trust, generating a confusing UI that in practice nobody but three people used. Easy mode was still confusing, with details like does the button show "the current state or an option to switch to that state"? An alternative plugin, autocrypt, was actually a much better beginner-proof way of having pgp. I still think TB 78 isn't enough, but it's a step into the the right direction, where we recognize that there's a brilliant system in pgp, obscured by outdated and even counterproductive security insights (such as the trust levels). It also is included by default, important for secure by default mail communication.