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With plugins like enigmail on Thunderbird all this stuff is basically next-next-save with best practices in mind. If you can use Thunderbird I see no reason wh
by Raed667 11y ago
With plugins like enigmail on Thunderbird all this stuff is basically next-next-save with best practices in mind.
If you can use Thunderbird I see no reason why you can't use GPG
- Tomte 11y agoThat's about how much market share? Less than a percent? (I loved EnigMail, back when I was using it)
- rockdoe 11y agoWhat's the point here? If you want secure email then use an email client that doesn't suck at it? (That said, the key management part of GPG doesn't become easier just because you use Thunderbird)
- Raed667 11y agoYeah but at least you have some GUI for listing, exporting, generating certificates, etc ..
- Tomte 11y agoMost mail clients "don't suck" at secure email: S/MIME is readily available, virtually everywhere. Only because of some irrational dislike in the Open Source community do we even have this discussion. Self-signed X.509 certificates would have done more for the cause of "secure email" than all GnuPG advocacy ever did.
- rockdoe 11y agoSelf-signed X.509 certificates would have done more for the cause of "secure email" Uh, nope, nope, nope. You can't even revoke those things AFAIK. Also I'm not sure how those are any easier than using PGP.
- jandrese 11y agoMost mail clients suck in one very fundamental way: Importing someone's published public key is a manual process, and usually a fairly obscure one. Mail clients should automatically query keyservers for all of the addresses on the TO: line and automatically import the keys they find. Instead they assume you're going to pass keys around on USB sticks or some such nonsense and import them into GPG by hand using some arcane syntax. It's ridiculous.
- Raed667 11y agoI don't have number but instead of promoting command line tools we should start with stuff like this. It is not hard to learn enigmail