1757934 - WKD isn't used when retrieving a missing key used for a signature

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1735033

(MailNews Core :: Security: OpenPGP, defect)

Description

[Christoph Klassen]

Attachment: discover_key_for_signature.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/97.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a signed email
2. Click on the button "OpenPGP" (in the top right corner of the attached screenshot)
3. Click on "Discover..."

Actual results:

I got a message dialog with the following text: "We could not find any key matching the specified search criteria." But I didn't get the public key belonging to the key that was used to sign the email.

Expected results:

The public key that belongs to the key, which was used to sign the message, was saved on a WKD server. I expected that Thunderbird would retrieve it.

Comment 1

[Christoph Klassen]

Attachment: thunderbird_discover.png

I added a screenshot of the console that shows what happens when I click on the button "Discover...". It doesn't look like Thunderbird is trying to get a key via WKD.

Comment 2

[u617804]

See also bug 1735033

Comment 3

[Morgan Read]

Is it clear that WKD 'is not used' - I assumed it was used, but broken - perhaps a subtle distinction but no doubt important for any fix. Anyway, I can confirm this, see here.

Comment 4

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

yes, see bug 1735033 comment 2