[arch-general] Tbird 78.2 enable Master Password of GPG keys stored in profile unencrypted

Severus huynhok.uit at vnoss.org
Wed Sep 16 13:42:42 UTC 2020



On 9/16/20 15:46, Archange via arch-general wrote:
> Le 16/09/2020 à 12:41, David C. Rankin a écrit :
>> All,
>>
>>   Just a heads up. SuSE has been doing work with Thunderbird 78.2 trying to
>> prepare for a move to it with the openPGP replacement for Enigmail. One issue
>> that has come from that is the realization that unless you enable a Master
>> Password for thunderbird passwords, once you import your GPG keys, they will
>> be stored unencrypted in your thunderbird profile. If you have never set a
>> mater password for thunderbird before (I haven't), it looks like that will be
>> required with 78.2 hits.
> 
> Or just keep using GnuPG for private key handling, which is what I will
> be doing.
> 
> Regards,
> Archange
> 
Would it  be backported with security patches if we did not upgrade to
78 series?

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