Re: How to use a the same generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail

2017-07-16 Thread Fabian A. Santiago
July 16, 2017 11:41 AM, "E.Keen" wrote: > Dear community, > > I am very passionate about cyber security and working against mass > surveillance. I therefore try to stay informed about security > measurements and encryption. > > Nevertheless, I do have a problem which I cannot solve by myself. >

Re: How to use a the same generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail

2017-07-16 Thread Jürgen Polster
As said by Fabian, IOS natively only supports S/ MIME keys. This works rather seamlessly. You nearly do not notice it. However to exchange or DELETE outdated S/MIME certificates of others is a real pain and made me stop working with it. The IOS apps for working with openpg encryption are iPGMail

Re: How to use a the same generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail

2017-07-17 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 2017/07/16 18:24, Jürgen Polster wrote: > The IOS apps for working with openpg encryption are iPGMail and > oPenGP. Both interact with mail by cut and paste of content In the case of iPGMail, it can also use the "mail attachment" OS hook to automatically populate a draft email. You still need t

Re: How to use a the same generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail

2017-07-25 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Friday 14 July 2017 at 7:48:59 PM, in , E.Keen wrote:- > However, I don't know how to transfer the private key > securely without > anyone else being able to obtain it. I would think you could transfer the private key file to the moblle devic

Re: How to use a the same generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail

2017-07-25 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I would think you could transfer the private key file to the moblle > device by bluetooth, or by using a USB cable, or by email. So long as > the private key is protected by a decent passphrase, anybody else > getting a copy of the file should be of no consequence. This is correct. I've often v

Re: How to use a the same generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail

2017-07-25 Thread Andreas Heinlein
Am 25.07.2017 um 20:34 schrieb Robert J. Hansen: >> I would think you could transfer the private key file to the moblle >> device by bluetooth, or by using a USB cable, or by email. So long as >> the private key is protected by a decent passphrase, anybody else >> getting a copy of the file should

Re: How to use a the same generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail

2017-07-25 Thread Lukas Pitschl | GPGTools
Since its release, Canary Mail is probably your best option, since it support OpenPGP out-of-the-box. If you rather prefer to keep using iOS Mail, you’ll have to resort to the much less than user friendly options oPenGP and iPGMail (as others have mentioned). They work, but the user experience i

Re: How to use a the same generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail

2017-07-25 Thread mark M
generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail Since its release, Canary Mail is probably your best option, since it support OpenPGP out-of-the-box. If you rather prefer to keep using iOS Mail, you’ll have to resort to the much less than user friendly options oPenGP and iPGMail (as others have

Re: How to use a the same generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail

2017-07-26 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Tuesday 25 July 2017 at 9:49:15 PM, in , Andreas Heinlein wrote:- > I still would not recommend that to non-technical > people. While the > users on this list probably know what a 'decent' > passphrase is, most > normal users don't. They tend

Re: How to use a the same generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail

2017-07-26 Thread Andreas Heinlein
Am 26.07.2017 um 11:27 schrieb MFPA: > Do "most normal users" make use of an OpenPGP smartcard? Those that do > might be able to use the same keypair on their mobile phone by means > of an NFC-enabled smartcard. Surely not. I guess most "normal users" don't even know that such a thing exists. Besi

Re: How to use a the same generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail

2017-07-26 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Wednesday 26 July 2017 at 12:27:20 PM, in , Andreas Heinlein wrote:- > Besides that, AFAIK the NFC-functionality on several > SmartCards is not > for use with OpenPGP, it's just there for additional > purposes with other > applications. At l

Re: How to use a the same generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail

2017-07-26 Thread Andreas Heinlein
Am 26.07.2017 um 14:05 schrieb dekkz...@gmail.com: > On 07/26, Andreas Heinlein wrote: >> Am 26.07.2017 um 11:27 schrieb MFPA: >>> Do "most normal users" make use of an OpenPGP smartcard? Those that do >>> might be able to use the same keypair on their mobile phone by means >>> of an NFC-enabled sm

Re: Re: How to use a the same generated keypair on enigmail/thunderbird and iOS Mail

2017-07-26 Thread dekkzz78
On 07/26, Andreas Heinlein wrote: Am 26.07.2017 um 11:27 schrieb MFPA: Do "most normal users" make use of an OpenPGP smartcard? Those that do might be able to use the same keypair on their mobile phone by means of an NFC-enabled smartcard. Surely not. I guess most "normal users" don't even know