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Extras -> migrate to Enigmail installation did nothing. Why?
Enigmail has been discontinued. Mozilla said they would add OpenPGP functionality to Thunderbird, so the developer stopped with the plug-in. Unfortunately, October, 2021 came and went without Mozilla ever actually finished implementing OpenPGP support, so Thunderbird users are nowadays left without it since October of last year. Several other capabilities have been broken/removed too.
If you need a graphical front-end to GnuPG wich should work with just any kind of text-software (like Email-clients to name just one), GpgFrontend looks promising.
Edit: Several programs like this exist. Most are outdated.
Last edited by Michael Uplawski; 09-02-2022 at 09:26 AM.
Reason: More than one frontend.
Here are two links with background information. One for the late, great Enigmail and one for GNU Privacy Guard which is the underlying technology there:
Here are two links with background information. One for the late, great Enigmail and one for GNU Privacy Guard which is the underlying technology there:
Now we have reached a point where we can benefit from a continuous revenue stream to maintain and extend the software without asking for donations or grants. This is quite a new experience to us and I am actually a bit proud to lead one of the few self-sustaining free software projects who had not to sacrifice the goals of the movement.
As regards front-ends, I have successfully tested GPA (The GNU Privacy Assistant) with GnuPG 2.2.35 and can recommend it.
Edit #4.455.221 (more to come): In contrast to GpgFrontend (see my post #5, above), GPA uses the installed versions of Libassuan, Libgpgerror and GPGME. Without wanting to suggest anything, I prefer that setting. I do not know who has tested GpgFrontend for errors, but will not give it much importance. It is, however, actively maintained.
Last edited by Michael Uplawski; 09-02-2022 at 10:02 AM.
Reason: doubt and a dozen more things.
As regards front-ends, I have successfully tested GPA (The GNU Privacy Assistant) with GnuPG 2.2.35 and can recommend it.
Well, that's a refreshing bit of good news. Thanks for the correction.
Looking around, there is now another OpenPGP-related project in the works. If I understand correctly, sequoia is a library with C and Python bindings, and it also provides some polished text-interface front-ends for the shell or shell scripts.
If I understand correctly, sequoia is a library with C and Python bindings, and it also provides some polished text-interface front-ends for the shell or shell scripts.
Text front-ends is an interesting perspective...
But my recommendations were directed towards people who want GUI front-ends to GnuPG. All the GnuPG-support that I need – personally –, is provided by a line
Code:
set pgp_use_gpg_agent=yes
in .muttrc.
When PGPClick was actively developed, it made me fear for my knowledge of the PGP-commands. Too much luxury. Today, as I do no longer understand GnuPG, any kind of front-end or the GnuPG-support in Mutt comes handy. I will no longer criticize people for not wanting to dig deeper into the documentation.
However, when I read the sq documentation, I have to wonder what is actually won over calling GnuPG directly.
Text front-ends is an interesting perspective...
But my recommendations were directed towards people who want GUI front-ends to GnuPG. All the GnuPG-support that I need – personally –, is provided by a line
Code:
set pgp_use_gpg_agent=yes
in .muttrc.
I will not use an other e-Mail Client like mutt.
My question is:
Why have thunderbird in CentOS no support for PGP?
Hello,
My question is:
Why have thunderbird in CentOS no support for PGP?
See #4 above for the short, technical answer. The longer answer has to do with politics on the part of Mozilla, which is nowadays mostly funded by its major competitor, Google, which has been aggressively against mail encryption as it interferes with several of its business models.
Maybe you can pull in a newer version via the Backports repository, it might have partial OpenPGP support.
Why have thunderbird in CentOS no support for PGP?
Why das any program **have** PGP (GnuPG) support?
Both, the software treating text (like Email) and the software which implements OpenPGP will function independently from one another and you can always use the output of one as input to the other. Facilitation is great, but you cannot impose that a mail-client *also* does cryptography. If it can, be happy. End of story.
$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Linux-BaseOS.repo.rpmsave
# CentOS-Linux-BaseOS.repo
#
# The #mirrorlist system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the
# update status of each mirror to pick current mirrors that are geographically
# close to the client. You should use this for CentOS updates unless you are
# manually picking other mirrors.
#
# If the #mirrorlist does not work for you, you can try the commented out
# baseurl line instead.
[baseos]
name=CentOS Linux $releasever - BaseOS
#mirrorlist=http://#mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=BaseOS&infra=$infra
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/BaseOS/$basearch/os/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centosofficial
#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
includepkgs=thunderbird
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-8
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