892793 - Feature Request: Make email encryption default (PGP, OpenPGP, Enigmail)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 448964

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[Marc Gutt]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Installed GnuPG, Enigmail, created keys, uploaded keys, encrypt mail, etc. If I'm the receiver I need to ask which public server is used, password input, etc.


Actual results:

Email is encrypted but receiver does not use encryption or he does not want it because its to complicate.


Expected results:

To expand the usage of email encryption Thunderbird should encrypt all emails by default. This means after installation it asks for a password and generates a public-key and uploads it automatically to the public server (eg. mozilla). Before sending an email TB checks for a public key of the receiver. If it is given the email will be send encrypted. If not it is send normally. If you receive an encrypted email it will be automatically decrypted (optional auto encryption through password manager).