Hi!

It is commonly recognized that the best way to certify a key was to
sign the key in a temporary keyring, extract that signature, and mail it
encrypted to the email address. This has two main advantages: 1. we can
assert that whoever controls the key also control the email address;
2. people are free to choose if they want to publish the signatures
themselves (or not).

The two piece of software I know who implement this behavior is
caff [1] and monkeysign [2].

One of the hard thing we both tools, even if monkeysign is better, is to
setup what is needed to send the encrypted emails.

And then I realized that Enigmail was actually an add-on for a tool that
already knows how to send encrypted emails quite well. So this is a kind
feature request to add a similar feature to Enigmail.

 [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/caff
 [2]: http://web.monkeysphere.info/monkeysign/

Thanks!
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