[arch-general] Sequoia/Octopus and Thunderbird - alternative OpenPGP support package

[NicoHood]

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!