Questions tagged [enigmail]
A data encryption and decryption extension for Mozilla Thunderbird and the SeaMonkey internet suite that provides OpenPGP public key e-mail encryption and signing.
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How to workaround Thunderbird 78's lack of support for encrypted mailing lists?
As of Thunderbird 78, the support for PGP plugins such as Enigmail has been dropped in favour of a native implementation of pgp in Thunderbird's core. But some features of Enigmail are still missing. ...
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Force specific encryption cipher for S/MIME mails
I have a number of contacts who can only decrypt 3DES, when it comes to S/MIME encrypted mails. I'm aware that this is by far not ideal, but better than no encryption at all.
My problem is, that I ...
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Make key trusted in Enigmail?
I have tried to import a public key of someone into enigmail. The import failed silently (nothing absolutely happened, not even an error). I tried key from file and from clipboard.
Then I used gpg --...
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Is it possible to create GnuPG keys from a x509 cert/key pair?
I have a digital cert issued by my organization for signing email. It's imported into Thunderbird and the key and cert can be exported to a .p12 from within Thunderbird.
I'd like to use the .p12 to ...
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decrypt .asc file from enigmail not work
I'm new on PGP and I'm trying to see how It works:
I can encrypt and decrypt files with my keys pair, but If I download an .asc file from thunderbird with enigmail I don't be able to decrypt it. I ...
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Where is Enigmail's keyring stored?
I have a GPG public/private key to send email with Enigmail and Thunderbird. I received an encrypted email but Enigmail did not recognize it. I tried to use the command line, but gpg complains gpg: ...
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gpg-agent keeps saving pin for a smartcard
I've found today, that enigmail is decrypting a message without asking me for the smart card's PIN. It is asking only once, and then not ask at all.
this is my gpg-agent.conf:
default-cache-ttl 0
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Can I restore gpg private key from raw data to enigmail?
I have recovered data from my local storage. The most valuable for me was to recover the private gpg key. I have found it in raw data files, I did delimitation based on the headers and footers. Now I ...
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Invalid GPG keys?
From emailselfdefense.fsf.org:
Be wary of invalid keys
GnuPG makes email safer, but it's still important to watch out for invalid keys, which might have fallen into the wrong hands. Email encrypted ...
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Is using PGP/MIME or PGP Inline more secure?
Using Enigmail for Thunderbird, the setup wizard automatically sets itself to PGP/MIME and also disables HTML formatting. I am looking for security and have no idea which to use, though I do know HTML ...
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Can someone using Thunderbird with Enigmail plugin be a victim of email spoofing
Let's say Bob pretends to be Alice, spoofs a non encrypted email to make it look like Alice and sends that to John who uses Thunderbird with Enigmail plugin.
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Does Thunderbird Enigmail plugin decrypt attached files?
From my research I have found out that you can easily send encrypted messages to one another using Enigmail.
If first I encrypted a file,then attached it to an email, sending it through Enigmail to a ...
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Do I need separate revocation certificates for each email address associated with a key?
I just created my first OpenPGP key with GnuPG + Thunderbird + Enigmail. The key is used for two email addresses. Now I created a revocation certificate. There is only on of the email addresses ...
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Receiving mails with strange PGP Key ID
I have received encrypted emails which I can not decrypt because the key used for encryption seems not to be correct.
Usually I have a key ID with 8 hex characters. This key can be found on public ...
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Why is encryption (or signing) of long lines in E-Mails with PGP problematic?
I am using Thunderbird with Enigmail and OpenPGP to encrypt and/or sign E-Mails. On many occasions Enigmail complains that I have too long lines in the mail and asks how it should wrap them.
However ...
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How to use subkeys for encryption and signing with Enigmail?
I'm having an issue with Enigmail. Here's an example to highlight my problem.
Alice and Bob wish to communicate securely using Enigmail. For extra security, they both decide to create keys using ...
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How to decrypt email with revoked key in enigmail?
Is it possible to decrypt a message which is encrypted with a revoked PGP key? I still have the private key, but Enigmail doesn't show me revoked keys neither does automatic decryption.
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Would Axolotl Ratchet protocol be suitable for encrypting email communication?
Axolotl Ratchet is used by the Signal messenger (formerly known as TextSecure) and an enhanced version of OTR in a way to make it suitable for mobile applications, which has the probability to encrypt ...
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