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posted by martyb on Monday August 31 2020, @06:30PM   Printer-friendly

9to5Linux is reporting on the new version of Thunderbird which now supports OpenPGP by default:

Thunderbird 78.2.1 has been released today and it finally enables the OpenPGP feature by default. That's amazing news for privacy and security fans enthusiasts using the open-source email client as they won't have to go to all the trouble of enabling OpenPGP in the latest Thunderbird 78 series.

After you update to Thunderbird 78.2.1, you'll be able to access the OpenPGP Key Manager window from the Tools menu by clicking on the hamburger menu on the right side of the window (see the screenshot above for details).

So as of Thunderbird 78.2.1, it will no longer be necessary to use the Enigmail add-on and that add-on ends on an amicable note. Enigmail for Thunderbird will be supported for 6 months now but will continue for Postbox.

Previously:
(2018) Google Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Third-Party E-Mail


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Snotnose on Monday August 31 2020, @10:21PM (2 children)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Monday August 31 2020, @10:21PM (#1044726)

    Problem is, if the other end doesn't use it then you can't either. Which made it kinda worthless. Unless you're in some shady group and y'all decide to use PGP, in which case you're kinda, I dunno, shady.

    Using PGP to meet the wife for lunch, when she didn't get it, was kinda pointless.

    Great idea, AFAIK great implementation, but the social aspect of having all your contacts use it also, especially when they are non-tech types, well, it didn't work so well for me.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday September 01 2020, @12:09AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday September 01 2020, @12:09AM (#1044766)

    I think the year was 1996 when I decided that all available e-mail clients sucked rancid dog wang and bought myself a book on SMTP with the intent of writing a better one, selling it for $19.95 a copy and retiring to Belize before age 32 - then the day job started making money and demanding my attention, so Eudora beat me to the punch. I've kind of watched the state of the market since then - thought about making a run at a PGP integrated client at one point, but two things killed it: 1) cloud services like GMail have fundamental advantages over SMTP/POP clients, and 2) the mobile platforms that so many people were starting to use at the time were incredibly fragmented (PalmOS, Crackberry, later iOS and Android) posing a much larger barrier to entry than existed in the days when 99% of the market used Windows 95 variants. Even in 2010 - I put together a half-decent steganography app on Qt (Win/Lin/Mac), but the fragmentation, treadmill API updates and ubiquity of the mobile space still made it a non-starter, only useful for people communicating desktop to desktop, and who did that anymore in 2010? Besides, by 2010 others had pretty well proved that pretty much nobody cared enough about online privacy to fool with steganography, I just re-confirmed with an updated app - though I did sell one copy for 0.9997 BTC (approximately US$4 at the time.)

    Point, there's not much of a point, besides: the vast majority of people just don't care, so they don't use things like PGP - not unless they're thrust in their face as the easiest possible option - and I do believe that the "security" forces of the world have been actively exploiting this human trait and making sure that secure communications are not the easiest possible option (which they certainly could be with very little effort on the part of popular app authors.)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @03:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @03:29AM (#1044816)

    This is why nowadays you send that message via XMMP with OMEMO. You are happy, your wife is happy, restaurants and coffee shops are happy.