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As of Thunderbird 78, the support for PGP plugins such as Enigmail has been dropped in favour of a native implementation of pgp in Thunderbird’s core. But some features of Enigmail are still missing. One of those features is to create some… Continue reading How to workaround Thunderbird 78’s lack of support for encrypted mailing lists?
I have a number of contacts who can only decrypt 3DES, when it comes to S/MIME encrypted mails. I’m aware that this is by far not ideal, but better than no encryption at all.
My problem is, that I can’t find a way to force Thunderbird to … Continue reading Force specific encryption cipher for S/MIME mails
I have tried to import a public key of someone into enigmail. The import failed silently (nothing absolutely happened, not even an error). I tried key from file and from clipboard.
Then I used gpg –import on the file and th… Continue reading Make key trusted in Enigmail?
A security researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability in some of the world’s most popular and widely used email encryption clients that use OpenPGP standard and rely on GnuPG for encrypting and digitally signing messages.
The disclosure comes … Continue reading GnuPG Flaw in Encryption Tools Lets Attackers Spoof Anyone’s Signature
I want to implement a filter in Thunderbird, which allows me to differently highlight (i.e. mark/tag) incoming emails which are encrypted using different public keys. Therefore, I wanted to check the email headers for differe… Continue reading Getting the public key from a PGP message
When I use Eingmail in Thunderbird on Windows I can choose to save the pgp key password. Where is this password stored? Is it safely stored? How does that work compared to a Ubuntu System?
Continue reading How and where does Windows save the password for pgp keys?
I have a GPG public/private key to send email with Enigma and Thunderbird. I received an encrypted email but Enigma did not recognize it. I tried to use the command line, but gpg complains gpg: decryption failed: secret key n… Continue reading Where is Enigma’s keyring stored?
I’ve found today, that enigmail is decrypting a message without asking me for the smart card’s PIN. It is asking only once, and then not ask at all.
this is my gpg-agent.conf:
default-cache-ttl 0
max-cache-ttl 0
no-allow-ex… Continue reading gpg-agent keeps saving pin for a smartcard
I have recovered data from my local storage. The most valuable for me was to recover the private gpg key. I have found it in raw data files, I did delimitation based on the headers and footers. Now I have two separate *.key f… Continue reading Can I restore gpg private key from raw data to enigmail?
I have recovered data from my local storage. The most valuable for me was to recover the private gpg key. I have found it in raw data files, I did delimitation based on the headers and footers. Now I have two separate *.key f… Continue reading Can I restore gpg private key from raw data to enigmail?