Re: TB weirdness

2022-02-24 Thread naicam|ne
When I want to sign or encrypt a message, I am still a fan of writing it out and performing these actions from within gpa, and then cutting and pasting the encrypted text into my messages. Any other method leaves you to trust third parties to handle your keys responsibly which has been proven

Suggestions to Thunderbird users

2022-02-24 Thread PetRoh
I haven't tested this myself but from a quick check with someone who uses Thunderbird they couldn't verify this claim. Maybe this just happens on some versions? Either way I wouldn't assume it's intended behavior. Other than an annoying inability to turn off "by default" attachment of public

Re: TB weirdness

2022-02-24 Thread Mansfeld Elektronik
Am 24.02.2022 17:59, schrieb Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users: Sounds like a defect to me, do you have a problem report ticket with Thunderbird or a forum entry which described the problem in more detail (like which version is affected). It turns out the actual behavior is a little different

Re: TB weirdness

2022-02-24 Thread Andrew Gallagher via Gnupg-users
On 24/02/2022 16:59, Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users wrote: Sounds like a defect to me, do you have a problem report ticket with Thunderbird or a forum entry which described the problem in more detail (like which version is affected). It turns out the actual behavior is a little different

Re: TB weirdness

2022-02-24 Thread Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users
Sounds like a defect to me, do you have a problem report ticket with Thunderbird or a forum entry which described the problem in more detail (like which version is affected). It turns out the actual behavior is a little different than I originally described. If you have a valid certificate

Re: TB weirdness

2022-02-24 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Hi Vincent, Am Donnerstag 24 Februar 2022 13:27:08 schrieb Vincent Breitmoser via Gnupg-users: > > Overall I believe that attaching pubkeys (like autocrypt proposes) is not > > a good idea (the arguments put forward elsewhere). > > For the record, Autocrypt does not attach public keys, it

Re: TB weirdness

2022-02-24 Thread Vincent Breitmoser via Gnupg-users
> Overall I believe that attaching pubkeys (like autocrypt proposes) is not a > good idea (the arguments put forward elsewhere). For the record, Autocrypt does not attach public keys, it includes them in headers. I concur that attaching public keys is a bad idea. > apparently, Thunderbird is

Re: Who protects the private key (was: Changing the encryption algorithm used for PGP/GPG private key)

2022-02-24 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Am Sonntag 20 Februar 2022 09:30:36 schrieb Daniel Colquitt via Gnupg-users: > I agree with you, and Robert Hansen above, insofar as there is no practical > weakness in using SHA-1 as part of a key derivation algorithm. (for protecting exported private keys) > Nevertheless it does seem

PGP is a proprietary Broadcom product (Was: Can't synchronize keys using Seahorse)

2022-02-24 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Am Donnerstag 17 Februar 2022 17:18:58 schrieb Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users: > or whichever corporate entity owned the PGP intellectual property at the > time. Network Associates gave way to PGP Security gave way to Symantec > gave way to... As far as I know, it is Broadcom since a few

Re: TB weirdness

2022-02-24 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Am Donnerstag 17 Februar 2022 17:35:53 schrieb Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users: > Thunderbird doesn't use GnuPG. For some operations it still can (be configured to do so). Anyway, we do have a wiki page for hints https://wiki.gnupg.org/EMailClients/Thunderbird > However, for those who do: