1786260 - MIME certification update process in account settings (make it easier to update both S/MIME certificates at the same time)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(MailNews Core :: Security: S/MIME, enhancement)

Description

[Ralf]

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Steps to reproduce:

Suggestion:
When importing and updating MIME certificates, the system does not automatically link to the same expired e-mail named certificate and ask the user whether the imported certificate should automatically be set as the "new" certificate to replace the expired one.

No, e.g. for a signing certificate (digital signature), I always have to click on Select after an import and then I am confronted with this critical question question:

German-English Translation:

"You should also specify a certificate that other people use when they send you encrypted messages. Do you want to use the same certificate to encrypt and decrypt messages sent to you?"

This confuses many users, as most of them lack the understanding of how e-mail
encryption is built.

Why not just add a tick plus info to the import and update of a certificate so that
this extra selecting step is omitted.

Or if the expired one is also not used for encryption, simply omit the question
about the encryption, would be also okay.

That would really make this annual update import a lot easier for
"customer email employees".

[DeepL] was helping...