Even better than what I expected! Thanks for making our communications safer!
On 28/03/18 11:48, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > On 28.03.18 12:13, Orfeas Stefanos Thyfronitis Litos wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I just skimmed through the mailing list but could not find any reference >> to this. Does the new technique for encrypting the message subject hurts >> local searching? I imagine three things may happen: >> >> 1) I can search against encrypted subjects only when I have unlocked my >> private key (best case scenario) >> 2) I can't search against encrypted subjects even if I have unlocked my >> private key (reasonable, since the private key gets automatically locked >> after a while and the search mechanism isn't too aware of encryption as >> far as I know) >> 3) I can always search against encrypted subjects, even without having >> unlocked the private key (fishy, since the search mechanism would then >> have access to ostensibly encrypted stuff) (and I don't know of any >> ready-made search mechanisms against encrypted stuff) > Neither of the above ;-) > > You can search/filter all subjects that were locally decrypted & viewed > (because that updates the Message Header Database of Thunderbird). That > is, once you decrypt and read an email, the message subject in the list > of mails gets updated. From this point onwards, you can search and > filter for the subject. > > Note that I'm talking about searching via menu Edit > Search or > filtering via the "Filter" bar. I'm not talking about searching via the > Search bar of the reader window. The latter searches indexed messages > and does AFAIK not cover the subject, nor encrypted messages at all. > > -Patrick > > > > _______________________________________________ > enigmail-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
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