Closed Bug 887267 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Encrypting email must become as easy as possible!

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

x86_64
All
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22687

People

(Reporter: wegwerf4, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release) Build ID: 2013051000 Steps to reproduce: Installed and configured enigmail and would have given up if I were an average user. Actual results: Finally with much reading and hours of google I managed to encrypt an email but I think this should and could be made much much easier by Thunderbird. Expected results: I propose 1) to integrate encryption into Thunderbird and not to have an addon like enigmail 2) to have a very, very, very simple first step-by-step configuration dialogue for open-gpg-encryption, in which reasonable defaults are offered. 3) the attitude of the programmers should be to enable real dummies to setup a basic possibility for encryption. The present attitude is addressed at experts and prevents average users from using encryption. To quote your security check box: Many users could be harmed by this security problem: it should be made most public until it is resolved.
OS: Linux → All
Version: 25 → unspecified
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
[Note: the use of good UI for a PGP plugin is one of the stumbling blocks of bug 22687, so it completely subsumes this request]
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