323343 - Integration of a Certificate Authority into the eMail client (missing feature)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 202329

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Karl Heiz Hinterseeer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060101 SeaMonkey/1.5a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060101 SeaMonkey/1.5a

The SMIME eMailing lacks popularity, because of the difficulty to get a users certificate. While the benefits of encryption for privacy are obvious, nearly nobody has a certificate because it is expensive and/or beyond most of the Thunderbird users skills to start a certificate request. Why not integrating a certificate authority into Thunderbird?
A certificate authority for eMail keys should be included into Thunderbird.
With the setup of an eMail account, it should generate an valid key pair for this account and install signing eMails by default. The certificate should make clear, that the
Certificate issued by: Tunderbird, not certifying the eMail address included, but may be useful for encryption.
This would boost the popularity of secure communication.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
You need too much IT skills to organize an eMail certificate.  Your public certificate is listed in dictionaries, open for harvesting by spamers.

Expected Results:  
With every eMail account an automatic Thunderbird key pair for this eMail account should be generated and digitally signing should be default. Only your eMail contacts get your public key and your eMail address is not listed on the net.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 202329?

Comment 2

[Karl Heiz Hinterseeer]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Duplicate of Core bug 202329?
the intention is the same, generating no cost user eMail certificates by default


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 202329 ***