1924357 - dialog to specify external gnupg key should make sure you import the public key as well (as it's needed)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Security: OpenPGP, enhancement)

Description

[Benjamin Bach]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0

Steps to reproduce:

Referenced an existing external PGP key, using GPG - fantastic feature, love it 🥳 ❤️

Actual results:

As many other people seem to do [1][2][3], I missed the instruction to add the public key via Key Manager. It took me some time trying other solutions (like different KEY ID format).

The instruction is in the wrong place. It needs to be displayed when it's relevant and - even better - have a field to directly start the import of the public key.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/17pbxf2/gpg_smartcard_implementation_in_current_tb_version/
[2] https://bacardi55.io/2024/06/16/encrypt-emails-with-thunderbird-and-gpg/
[3] https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/e2ee/T93345d06db049fb4

Expected results:

I think the import wizard should ask for the public key, since it's mandatory.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Bach]

In the description, I should have clearly noted that the issue is that adding a public key is mandatory but it's not part of the data asked for in the import wizard. Without it, encrypting/signing new messages results in a subsequent error:

Unable to send the message, because there is a problem with your personal key. The configured key ID ‘KEYID’ cannot be found on your keyring.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

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The instruction to also add public key is there, but that dialog could make sure you have one.

Comment 3

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

Yes we should assist the user better.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think after "Save key id", the wizard should show a next step to import the public key, if none was found.

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Attachment: Bug 1924357 - When setting up external gnupg, show import public key page if we didn't have the key. r=kaie,jtracey

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/854c22123f33
When setting up external gnupg, show import public key page if we didn't have the key. r=kaie