1657390 - Cannot send encrypted email if address contains uppercase character

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Security: OpenPGP, defect, P1)

Description

[Florian Sammüller]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:79.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/79.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Have a PGP-key with a User-ID packet

  Prename Surname <[e-mail]>

Notice the capitalization of the mail address.

• Write a mail to "[e-mail]" and turn on PGP encryption

Actual results:

• "View Security Info" shows the key with capitalized letters and the acceptance/trust level can be set. This suggests that encrypted mail can be sent to this person regardless of capitalization of their mail address

• However, when clicking on "Send", an unspecific error message

  Sending of the message failed

is shown. The console reveals an error in

finishCryptoEncapsulation chrome://openpgp/content/modules/mimeEncrypt.jsm:588

Expected results:

The encrypted message should have been sent.

As an additional observation: when using the capitalized mail address (i.e. "[e-mail]"), the correct security information is shown AND the encrypted message can be sent.

Also note that this bug might be related to bug 1653763.

Comment 1

[Florian Sammüller]

Forgot to mention that this was observed in version 81.0a1 (2020-08-05), 64bit

Comment 2

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

confirming, I still see the bug with my latest patches.

Comment 3

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

Attachment: Bug 1657390 - Cannot send encrypted email if address contains uppercase character. r=PatrickBrunschwig

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/9c5bbabd7082
Cannot send encrypted email if address contains uppercase character. r=PatrickBrunschwig DONTBUILD

Comment 5

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

Comment on attachment 9169474 [details]
Bug 1657390 - Cannot send encrypted email if address contains uppercase character. r=PatrickBrunschwig

OpenPGP correctness, no risk

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9169474 [details]
Bug 1657390 - Cannot send encrypted email if address contains uppercase character. r=PatrickBrunschwig

[Triage Comment]
Approved for beta
Approved for esr78

Comment 7

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/ff43c8b5342e21ab71f0e4269130c2e82c809379

Comment 8

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr78/rev/8e802a4637fb2e7597be213363a6f4d070f21409