On 09/09/2020 01:09, Mark wrote: > Thanks for the explanation of how pEp is connected to this. I do have a > few other questions that hopefully you will answer. > > 1) What does the pEp addon do in addition to or better than the built in > OpenPGP? In other words what are the advantages to installing this > add-on over the built in support?
Again, please read the pEp documentation, or ask the pEp people. I'm not affiliated to pEp, so I won't answer this. > 2) Can you explain the differences between pEp junior and classic modes? In Junior mode, there is no visible key management, and almost no possibility to configure anything. You automatically get a key for all your accounts, and encryption is done automatically whenever possible. You don't need to care for it in most ways. Key verfication is done via a handshake that uses trust words instead of fingerprints. In theory, there would be key synchronization across devices, but that was not finished in the pEp engine for Enigmail (AFAIK, it's now available in pEp). The UI is different than Enigmail. -Patrick > On 9/7/2020 10:40 PM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: >> On 07.09.2020 21:55, Phil Kane wrote: >>> On 9/6/2020 11:35 PM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: >>> >>>> pEp for Thunderbird is not Enigmail. You won't receive an Enigmail >>>> version that will work with TB 78. >>> If that is the case, just what is pEp? What does it replace? >> The main idea of pEp is to provide message security without bothering >> the user as much as possible. User should not need to deal with key >> management and should not need to care to enable encryption manually. >> >> If you want to know what pEp is, then read the following: >> https://www.pep.security/en/faq/ >> >> Enigmail 2.0 and 2.1 contains a pEp Junior Mode. In this mode, Enigmail >> uses the pEp engine for crypto-operations, and the user interface is >> reduced to a very small set of security indicators and dialogs. >> >> As Enigmail will not support TB 78, the pEp developers decided to create >> their own add-on from scratch. The add-on is the quasi-continuation of >> the pEp Junior Mode. Those who use Enigmail in the pEp Junior Mode are >> offered to move to that new pEp for Thunderbird addon instead of being >> migrated to OpenPGP in Thunderbird. >> >> -Patrick >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> enigmail-users mailing list >> enigmail-users@enigmail.net >> To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: >> https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
