On 4/17/21 11:54 PM, Javier via arch-general wrote:
On 4/9/21 4:46 AM, NicoHood via arch-general wrote:
On 4/8/21 9:17 PM, Mike Cloaked via arch-general wrote:
There is a new announcement of a drop-in replacement library for rnp in Thunderbird, that is based on code at the Sequoia project:
https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/04/08/202103-a-new-backend-for-thunderbird...
This would look very promising as a way to recover so much functionality that was dropped in the current Thunderbird builds for OpenPGP support. It would seem that building sequoia/octopus and using the resulting library would allow a version of Thunderbird to be built that has significantly enhanced support for integration with openPGP keyrings, and also support autcrypt.
It might be really nice if a version of Thunderbird was built for the arch repos with this library supporting encryption and signing instead of the current rnp implementation. Does anyone else think this would be a good project to work on?
I like the idea! I have not (re)enabled GPG support since the update because of varios reasons. A local keyring integration is just super important!
I also think the same. I do actually use GPG keyring for my private keys, but I believe that's not enough, and I'd like to use GPG instead, but TB made that impossible, or so I believed, until reading this, :)
Unfortunately, I'd guess Arch maintainers don't like patching upstream SW, and I understand since I like as much vanilla SW as possible, this would be one good exception for me, :)
Thanks !
I am not sure if that is what you (Javier) are actually doing, but I found a (simple but hidden) way to still use the GPG keyring without any thunderbird modifications. I was not aware of that before, so I'd like to share: https://blog.nicohood.de/use-thunderbird-78-with-system-gnupg-keyring Cheers, Nico