Collaborate Disseminate
I set up Thunderbird to use PGP a while ago, so I can sign and decrypt messages now. But I have forgotten my private passphrase for my private key, but since Thunderbird can do it anyway, it has it stored somewhere. How can I get it?
I a… Continue reading How to get PGP key passphrase out of Thunderbird?
If you decrypt ciphertext to the terminal like this:
gpg –output – –armor –encrypt –recipient 23642351 message.txt.pgp
..does it touch the hard drive / ssd or only live in RAM?
What about when Thunderbird decrypts a message – does the… Continue reading avoiding plaintext on the hard drive
I just tried to run a VPN connection and then read my email via Thunderbird. For every account, it asked me to reauthenticate.
I guess the servers are recognizing a different login location and are enforcing a new login…This appears to h… Continue reading Thunderbird over VPN is asking to authenticate every time
I just tried to run a VPN connection and then read my email via Thunderbird. For every account, it asked me to reauthenticate.
I guess the servers are recognizing a different login location and are enforcing a new login…This appears to h… Continue reading Thunderbird over VPN is asking to authenticate every time
I sign my emails using PGP/MIME through Thunderbird. The scheme creates a detached signature of the whole email (body and headers), and add it as a separate attachment. The signature is valid for that email, and only for that email because… Continue reading Prevent PGP Signature from being Forwarded [closed]
Today I noticed something strange.
I got an email containing a link that links to another site than the text says. In (Simple) HTML, the review is visible when hovering over the link.
However, in plaintext, in 3 out of 4 mails only the a.c… Continue reading Link test differs from link location in plaintext view is not visible in Thunderbird
In their Privacy Note, Mozilla writes the following:
Amazon Web Services: Thunderbird uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host its servers and as a content delivery network. Your device’s IP address is collected as part of AWS’s server logs… Continue reading Thunderbird uses AWS: Secure?
As far as I know, when Alice sends an encrypted email using PGP to Bob then the email will be encrypted using Bob’s public key. Only Bob can decrypt it (as long as no one else has Bob’s private key).
As far as I know, Thunderbird implement… Continue reading Reading locally-stored emails sent encrypted
I have a query regarding best practice of using PGP to sign emails with Thunderbird 78.
Thunderbird 78 took an existing system by Enigmail and brought it "in-house" to be built into the email client program. This results in some … Continue reading PGP security with Thunderbird 78 email client
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?