I trust that p≡p will be compatible with Thunderbird/Enigmail. I'm
concerned that you mentioned S/Mime rather than PGP/Mime.
I trust that we not fall into the too-easy pit: learning to
establish trust levels is vital to understanding PGP -- and -- is
badly abbreviated in SSL/TLS implementations: the user is not asked
to countersign key certificates .
On 09/08/2015 12:10 PM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
The following press release was published
yesterday (unfortunately I
had no time to re-post it earlier):
Encryption add-on Enigmail and pretty Easy privacy (p≡p)[1] are
joining in development of a solution for the well-known mail
client
Thunderbird. The goal is to make encryption as easy as possible,
said
Enigmail's project lead Patrick Brunschwig and p≡p's head of
development Volker Birk in a common press release. Enigmail and
p≡p
will offer p≡p technology for any Thunderbird user. Thunderbird is
still most popular among free email programs on desktop PCs and
Laptops.
"Enigmail offers the most-used solution for mail encryption as
Free
Software for many years now. But we don't want to rest on our
laurels.", Brunschwig explains. "Still way too few people are able
to
encrypt. But this is inevitable to protect privacy." That is to be
changed with the partnership. "p≡p is offering the possibility to
encrypt fully automatically. This way our users are gaining the
highest amount of security, while even not be touched by the
process
at all. At the same time p≡p is offering compatibility to OpenPGP
and
S/MIME, which is necessary to integrate into mail
infrastructures."
"Being the trailblazer, Enigmail managed to provide one of the
greatest user interfaces for mail encryption.", Birk says. "To
date
Enigmail is still the front-runner here. Together with Enigmail
we're
thinking beyond this: the default for email has to be encrypted
and
not unencrypted! For this purpose p≡p is offering the possibility
to
encrypt without any user interaction needed like managing keys.
Thunderbird is for p≡p a strategic platform in Free Software: no
other
free mail program has reached this spread. Therefore, it was the
logical choice to ask our colleagues at Enigmail for a
cooperation.
Who else could deliver more know-how of integrating encryption
into
Thunderbird?"
The development partnership is meant to lead into common project
Enigmail/p≡p. As release date for a very first version Enigmail
and
p≡p are aiming for December 2015.
[1] http://pep-project.org/
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