Open
Bug 937022
Opened 11 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
Can't encrypt w/ S/MIME without having a certificate of your own
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)
Thunderbird
Message Compose Window
Tracking
(Not tracked)
NEW
People
(Reporter: sven-mozilla, Unassigned)
References
Details
(Whiteboard: DUPEME)
Thunderbird won't let me encrypt an email, even if I have the certificate of the recipient, unless I configure S/MIME.
Why? I don't see a reason for that. I don't want to sign the mail with my private key, I just want to encrypt it with the recipients public key.
If Thunderbird would support this, more emails would get encrypted. Ideally, in combination with the "Encrypt if possible" add-on, Thunderbird would start sending encrypted S/MIME mails in response to signed S/MIME mails (which contain the public key of the sender), without any configuration necessary by the user.
Once the user sees how easy it is to set up S/MIME, perhaps she will get a certificate of her own.
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Updated•11 years ago
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Severity: normal → minor
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Version: 24 → Trunk
Updated•11 years ago
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Whiteboard: DUPEME
Is this a duplicate of Bug 1014433?
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Comment 2•11 years ago
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Hardly, because this bug is much older.
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Comment 4•7 years ago
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Any plans to work on this issue? It could help with increased of email encryption.
Ideally Thunderbird would opportunistically offer to encrypt an S/MIME mail as soon as it has seen the recipients certificate in the past.
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: minor → S4
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