1751086 - How to export all pgp public keys in a practical manner?

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Security: OpenPGP, enhancement)

Description

[Bernhard]

Attachment: Incomplete-handling-in-TB-when-exporting-several-pgp-public-keys.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/97.0

Steps to reproduce:

I am using Thunderbird 91.5 with OpenPGP on my workstation and want to set up TB on another PC (laptop). On my workstation, TB has many public pgp keys stored from my communication partners. I want to export all public pgp keys in one pragmatic step (NOT each key again and again).

I opened "Extras" -> OpenPGP-Schlüssel verwalten (in English "Tools" -> Administrate pgp keys),
then clicked "Bearbeiten" and "Alle Schlüssel auswählen" (which is "Select all keys"),
then went to "Datei" (English "File") but there "Öffentlichen Schlüssel in Datei exportieren" (which means export public key into file) is disabled.

Actual results:

Within the dialog to handle OpenPGP keys: The entry for exporting public keys below the main menu "Datei" (English "File") is disabled.

Expected results:

Extras -> OpenPGP-Schlüssel verwalten (in English Tools -> Administrate pgp keys) should be enabled not only to export a single selected public pgp key, but more than one (mayb all).

Then at the target PC, Thunderbird should have a functionality to do a mass import of these exported pgp keys.

Currently this is very very impractical as there is no export function for ALL public keys. It prevents a security-aware user to use Thunderbird at another PC !

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Bug 1676727 had regressed this a bit.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Attachment: Bug 1751086 - properly enable key export etc for multi selection. r=kaie

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/3d29fcf51d69
properly enable key export etc for multi selection. r=kaie

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Comment on attachment 9261024 [details]
Bug 1751086 - properly enable key export etc for multi selection. r=kaie

[Approval Request Comment]
Regression caused by (bug #): bug 1676727
User impact if declined: harder than necessary to export many keys at once
Testing completed (on c-c, etc.): c-c, beta
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): not risky

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9261024 [details]
Bug 1751086 - properly enable key export etc for multi selection. r=kaie

[Triage Comment]
Approved for esr91

Comment 6

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Thunderbird 91.8.0:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr91/rev/4fa31a7ec70e