1117533 - Integration of GnuPG encryption into the frontend

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22687

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Iceweasel/31.3.0
Build ID: 20141203154826

Steps to reproduce:

I think over the problem why people do not use mail encryption?
And yes - it's not a bug - it should be a feature (sorry for this).


Actual results:

I only have meet 2 people ever who use GnuPG encryption.


Expected results:

Everyone should do it instead of the discussion that the MTA is reponsible to do this.

I have written here about this question and think that Thunderbird is the better place for this question.
https://darkmail.info/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=29
So here my text again:

My personal experience is that the laziness of the users always win.
In many years i meet only 2 persons who used PGP/GnuPG !!!
When i talk with persons over encryption of emails most of them answer that they don't know how to do it.
And another group just says they have nothing to hide.

I think the first group is growing und much bigger.
So they would encrypt emails if it would be easy and standard.

That's the reason i ask for the email client, because this must cover this problem.
In fact it is possible to encrypt emails with GnupG for many years, but the people are to lazy to use the existent plugins.
When Thunderbird would have integrated it within the standard version and asked the people to create keys automatically when an account is added it would be more self-evident to use it.

What's about the idea to integrate GnuPG as standard into Thunderbird?
It should be integrated in the assistant to create a new mail account.
When this will work i think many people will use it.

Of course this is much work - i know.
But this will help instant to solve most of the NSA like problems of the current time.

Inventing and developing the mail transportation new like darkmail is doing now is a good idea and recommended.
But it will take (to) much time to get a stable version of it and much more time to get it established as standard mail transportation.

Please think over it - Thank you!

Comment 2

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Further posts to this problem i will do in bug 22687