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What'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 ea
by rockdoe 11y ago
What'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.