Hi Rick, At work I have Outlook, at home I have Thunderbird (yes, Linux only, I use opensuse for a long time already).
At work, I have used encrypted mail and some colleagues do as well, but I don't like it all that much. (Actually I was glad it was removed when I installed my new PC, I didn't bother to reactivate it afterwards.) If anything, when the first encrypted mail arrives it takes my PC quite a long time to decide it has to open the smart card for validation, and every time the smart card is used in another application (browser, putty etc) it has to revalidate the smart card. And that with an application that already often hangs, I need to reboot multiple times a week to get my outlook operational again. At home, with thunderbird, I don't recall ever doing something with encrypted mail. Regards, Berry. Op 05-12-2023 om 19:19 schreef Rick Troth:
That's cryptoGRAPHY, not to be konfoozed with cryptoCURRENCY. Any of you using Thunderbird? And if so, are you using the (now) built-in PGP support? Last week I noticed a LI post by someone from this circle. He had made a donation to Thunderbird (and we thank you!). So I asked this colleague privately if he had delved into the OpenPGP functionality which has been built-into Thunderbird for like three years already. He had not. He and I will circle back on that, but I then wondered about the rest of the group. So I must ask. I've been a user of, and a fan of, and a promoter of, PGP for many years. There are lots of tools now for security and privacy, and a handful of trust webs supporting them. The PGP "web of trust" is the most important because it is peer-to-peer. Not to slam the PKI model, but it has drawbacks when used at the lowest level. I could discuss, but let's do so in a separate thread. And don't forget that if you're running Linux, you ALREADY HAVE PGP in house, even if you don't know the value. The downside to PGP is its upside. Being peer-to-peer it doesn't scale well in large environments (enterprise, gov/mil, consumer). As a result, it has always been kind of a side-show. But then, it's a standard part of Linux. And now with OpenPGP built-into Thunderbird (and other email clients, from way before TB), it's much much easier to start using it, and then shortly to get into the web of trust. So that's the question: are any of you using PGP via Thunderbird? (Or using PGP at all?) I'd like to hear from you. Maybe converse with myself and our unnamed colleague. It's all about trust. -- R; <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
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