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
>
>
>
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