Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird and Addons

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Ok, I get it.  Your company requires it.  Makes sense.  Just what level of
security does this provide?  The contents of the message are not encrypted.
The only thing that is encrypted is someone's key.  Why wyould that need to
be included in a message, say, about Libreoffice's bulleted points not being
read well by Orca.  

Alex M



-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of
Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:41 AM
To: 'Orca-list'
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird and Addons

Well, I need it since it's required by the company I work for.

I'm not normally that security conscious myself, but as with most things
"need" is in the eye of the beholder. There are quite a few people who are
much more security conscious than I am, and hey, more power to them!
It's not for me to criticize. I'm sure there are things I worry over that
others think are pretty trivial.

On 14/02/13 10:15, Alex Midence wrote:
> Why does someone need this?  Unless you are involved in some sort of 
> important top secret work, why do you need an authentication key for 
> your e-mails?  I have never understood why ordinary people go to such 
> extraordinary lengths.  The only thing I have seen come of it is a 
> long and incomprehensible string of jibberish affixed to the end of 
> their e-mails, their very mundane e-mails, I might add.
>
> Alex M
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of 
> Hammer Attila
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:43 AM
> To: Orca-list
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird and Addons
>
> Krishnakant, I think this is the Enigmail extension, awailable with 
> Ubuntu repositoryes.
> Enigmail package description:
> "GPG support for Thunderbird and Debian Icedove OpenPGP extension for 
> Thunderbird. Enigmail allows users to access the features provided by 
> the popular GnuPG software from within Thunderbird.
>
> Enigmail is capable of signing, authenticating, encrypting and 
> decrypting email. Additionally, it supports both the inline PGP 
> format, as well as the PGP/MIME format as described in RFC 3156.
> Enhances: seamonkey, thunderbird"
>
> This is a very nice extension.
>
> Attila
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