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OpenPGP in Thunderbird

OpenPGP in Thunderbird

Posted Sep 24, 2020 17:05 UTC (Thu) by gnoutchd (guest, #121472)
In reply to: OpenPGP in Thunderbird by tlamp
Parent article: OpenPGP in Thunderbird

TBird 78.x can delegate secret key operations (decryption, signing) to GnuPG. This was added specifically to support smartcards. I don't have a smartcard (yet), but I did want to keep my secret key in GnuPG, and this worked for me. See <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards>. Does it not work for you?

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OpenPGP in Thunderbird

Posted Sep 24, 2020 17:44 UTC (Thu) by kucharczyk (guest, #139572) [Link]

This does not work for me. I have an e-mail I am able to decrypt but not from withing Thunderbird. Maybe an issue with the e-mail itself? Another, unrelated, issue is something called nested signatures. I can't read some mailing list e-mails because Thunderbird won't decrypt them. It says "openpgp: unsupported feature: nested signatures".

OpenPGP in Thunderbird

Posted Sep 25, 2020 8:16 UTC (Fri) by tlamp (subscriber, #108540) [Link]

That actually works here, thank you for pointing me to it.

Weird, I did quite some searching for Thunderbird and smartcard support, but didn't find that article.


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