21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird

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Post by janvdberg » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 9:14 PM UTC

21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird
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Re: 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird

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Post by janvdberg » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 9:39 PM UTC

Is this the longest time between request/bug and fix?

Re: 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird

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Post by gostsamo » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 9:47 PM UTC

janvdberg wrote: post #2

Is this the longest time between request/bug and fix?

Most likely there is a bug filed somewhere that asks for removing most of the parentheses from LISP. :)

Re: 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird

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Post by trothamel » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 9:49 PM UTC

janvdberg wrote: post #2

Is this the longest time between request/bug and fix?

It's in a different field, and I'm being very tongue-in-cheek - but the Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution has it beat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_th...

Re: 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird

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Post by sushisource » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 9:51 PM UTC

Why even bother at this point? PGP encryption in email is... not a good way to do secure communication.

Re: 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird

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Post by gerdesj » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 9:53 PM UTC

janvdberg wrote: post #2

Is this the longest time between request/bug and fix?

I think Open Office and Libre Office have some contenders back from Star Office days. I still use LO daily though.

Re: 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird

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Post by unixhero » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 9:53 PM UTC

sushisource wrote: post #5

Why even bother at this point? PGP encryption in email is... not a good way to do secure communication.

For one, it works.

Re: 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird

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Post by oconnore » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 9:59 PM UTC

I do think there ought to be a way to do good cryptography in email. Email is not going away anytime soon, so giving up on it as a legitimate place where cryptography is needed seems too ivory tower for me.

The “dead simple solution” is to just run the Signal protocol over SMTP, although I’m sure it’s possible there is a better design if you were to think about the specifics.

Re: 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird

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Post by edgarvaldes » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 10:04 PM UTC

How is the Thunderbird development speed nowadays?

Re: 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird

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Post by elchin » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 10:05 PM UTC

Gave me memories of the times when US had cryptography export restrictions :)