On 4/18/21 1:52 AM, NicoHood via arch-general wrote:
I am not sure if that is what you (Javier) are actually doing, but I found a (simple but hidden) way to still use the GPG keyring without any thunderbird modifications. I was not aware of that before, so I'd like to share: https://blog.nicohood.de/use-thunderbird-78-with-system-gnupg-keyring Cheers, Nico
Yes, that's precisely what I meant with using GPG to manage the private key, that's what I use. I first read about this on: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Migration-From-Enigmail https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-howto-and-faq https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/09/openpgp-in-thunderbird-78The master key is said not to be required, because by having gpg and the gpg-agent handle the private key, then the only thing TB keeps in its DB are the public keys, which, are public, hehe... However I don't like keeping a gpg keyring and a separate TB DB for public keys. Besides, in those readings, it's sort of unclear whether the support for gpg is a long term thing, rather it looks allowed just to work around the lack of support for certain private keys, like having them in an USB key, or a yubikey, or similar...
So, I'd go with a native gpg approach, if that's available... -- Javier
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