1046312 - Feature request: push s-mime to become the standard

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[tverweij]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140716183446

Steps to reproduce:

Create a new account, send e-mail


Actual results:

All email is transmitted unsigned and unencrypted


Expected results:

When you create a new account it should ask if you want to use a certificate, with the option "Create new" - where Mozilla supplies a certificate (that is updated automatically each year).
When sending mail, this should then always be signed and when possible encrypted.
This way s-mime will slowly become the standard, making the whole email experience a lot safer.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Sorry, that is not going to happen. 
We want account setup to be as smooth as possible. Furthermore mozilla does not supply certificates (and that's unlikely to change at least short term)

Comment 2

[tverweij]

I could try - but I already knew that this would be a wontfix; as I can see there has been no single s/mime fix since 2002 what suggest that security has no priority at all ...