The Thunderbird developers have announced that they will implement
OpenPGP support in Thunderbird 78 [1]. Support for Thunderbird in
Enigmail will therefore be discontinued.
I'd like to explain in the following paragraphs what this will mean for
Enigmail, and why this is an inevitable step.
The F
On 08/10/2019 08:08, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> The Thunderbird developers have announced that they will implement
> OpenPGP support in Thunderbird 78 [1]. Support for Thunderbird in
> Enigmail will therefore be discontinued.
Wow.
Patrick, first of all I'd like to thank you for all the effort yo
> Patrick, first of all I'd like to thank you for all the effort you have
> put into Enigmail (and will continue to put into it). Without your
> brilliant work it is clear that Thunderbird would not have been as
> successful as it has been.
Absolutely. Hear, hear. :)
> Whilst OpenPGP support sh
On 10/8/19 10:57 AM, Mark Rousell wrote:
> On 08/10/2019 08:08, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>> The Thunderbird developers have announced that they will implement
>> OpenPGP support in Thunderbird 78 [1]. Support for Thunderbird in
>> Enigmail will therefore be discontinued.
>
> Wow.
>
> Patrick, fi
Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> The Thunderbird developers have announced that they will implement OpenPGP
> support in Thunderbird 78 [1].
A long awaited news indeed!
> Support for Thunderbird in Enigmail will therefore be discontinued.
Pity, but I hope it will be better that way. In particular
> I have a terrible feeling that as with Firefox, this change in
> Thunderbird is going to carpet-nuke Thunderbird's add-on ecosystem and
> severely reduce its overall utility. WebExtensions has been around
> since 2015 and the Firefox WebExtensions add-on landscape is still a
> blasted plain spar
> In particular I hope, that Mozilla will not follow your example and
> won’t entice users to proprietary isolated keyserver [0]
The Hagrid codebase is not proprietary. It's been fully open sourced
and is developed by the same people behind the open-source SequoiaPGP.
I understand you don't like
On 08.10.19 18:37, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
> Pity, but I hope it will be better that way. In particular I hope, that
> Mozilla will not follow your example and won’t entice users to proprietary
> isolated keyserver [0] instead of distributed SKS network thus splitting the
> keybase. And won’
On 08.10.19 18:49, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> The Hagrid codebase is not proprietary. It's been fully open sourced
> and is developed by the same people behind the open-source SequoiaPGP.
Which is financed 100% by pEp (including the initial work on Hagrid) --
even if we reject keyservers ourselve
On 10/8/19 12:49 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> In particular I hope, that Mozilla will not follow your example and
>> won’t entice users to proprietary isolated keyserver [0]
>
> The Hagrid codebase is not proprietary. It's been fully open sourced
> and is developed by the same people behind the
On 10/8/19 12:41 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> I have a terrible feeling that as with Firefox, this change in
>> Thunderbird is going to carpet-nuke Thunderbird's add-on ecosystem and
>> severely reduce its overall utility. WebExtensions has been around
>> since 2015 and the Firefox WebExtensions
"Hernâni Marques (p≡p foundation)" wrote:
> On 08.10.19 18:37, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
>
>> Pity, but I hope it will be better that way. In particular I hope, that
>> Mozilla will not follow your example and won’t entice users to proprietary
>> isolated keyserver [0] instead of distributed SKS
Mark Rousell wrote on 08.10.2019 16:57:
[...]
> Whilst OpenPGP support should ideally of course have been built into
> Thunderbird from the beginning (alongside S/MIME support) I have to say
> that, as things now stand, I have more confidence in the development and
> project management of Enigmail
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