Pretty proud of my
second patch sent to the
#ClawsMail team.
Hopefully, the next version of this MUA will have a largely improved
#E2EE #UX:
- a new config option in the #PGP plugins enable automatic online discovery of PGP keys (according to your existing gpg.conf auto-key-locate
- whenever you recieve a mail signed by a public key missing (or expired) in your #GPG keyring, you'll have a button to trigger an online search for the key (either through #WKD or the older #keyserver based approach).
In the age of
#ChatControl, I think it's time for PGP based end-to-end
#encryption to be enabled by default in
#email clients.
Most arguments against the complexity of the
#WebOfTrust are moot, when applied to mail comunications. And given how easy is to deploy
WKD protocol¹, key autodiscovery could seriously increase the amount of encrypted mails over the network, increasing people
#privacy and heavily reducing the power of passive
#surveillance.
#HTTPSEverywhere did not reduced global surveillance, but
#PGP could!
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¹ an Italian tutorial about wkd is in the making, but...
#programming was more funny. 😝