Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird and Addons

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I can't answer that. All I know is that I get the occasional message
within my company that I need to use the Enigmail extension and my
passcode/key to decrypt before I can read any of the message. I don't
recall if I considered the content of the message to be particularly
confidential or not.

To be honest, I just don't bother worrying about whether someone
includes an encrypted key in their message or not. I'm not a big fan of
signatures in general, but I've found it's not worth complaining about.
It's not like my opinion is going to keep someone from tacking on a
silly or offensive signature at the bottom of their email.

On 14/02/13 10:53, Alex Midence wrote:
> 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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Christopher (CJ)
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