276073 - Wishlist: keypair creation, message signing and signature verification as defaults in thunderbird

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22687

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[muzzle]

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Right now thunderbird supports cryptography only trough the enigmail extension
plus gpg, but I really think encription and signing should be included in the
defult mail client and used by default everytime it is possible.
Encription and message signing only makes sense if most people use them but most
users will never go trough the process of installing and setting up enigmail+gpg
and generating a keypair. 
This could be solved if a widespread (at least we all hope so) mail client as
thunderbird used encryption by default. A keypair should be generated (if there
is not already one on the servers) for every email account and every outgoing
message signed. Of course users should have the freedom to easily disable this,
but probably most of them would just use this default 'new feature'.
Some new, cool icon would show 'verified' messages and if a recipient is found
to support crypto (it uses tb or signs its emails) thunderbird could even bother
the user by asking if he wants to send a secure (encrypted) message to him. 
If enough people starts using encriptionn maybe other mail clients will follow
the trend.

Oh, by the way, look at how many thing Outlook made us swallow just by making
them default (HTML mail for one), why not reverse the effect and try to make
something good as default?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

bug 227804 ? I wouldn't be secure at all, but it might be the only way to use
this feature for common users.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[boris]

I guess this could be a feature to distinguish trusted e-mail senders from
untrusted ones in the junk filter. Right now this is performed by excluding
senders in the address book from filtering, owever, this is everything else then
secure or reliable.

Comment 4

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Essentially bug 22687 as far as I can tell.