Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)

Please help with testing a new
#Thunderbird #Security feature: Unobtrusive Signatures, a novel mechanism for digitally signing email, currently implemented for #OpenPGP.

It avoids the unexpected signature attachments that are shown by non-supporting email clients for emails that used the traditional signing format, and that were frequently confusing recipients. With this new mechanism, it should be fine to sign all emails.

More details here:
https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/planning/Tfd5f9c444ef3d06c-M6cac45a5459adb7e58a7ac79/call-for-testing-openpgp-unobtrusive-signatures

#digitalsignature

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Show threadHeiko14h ago
@kaiengert Amazing to see this feature moving forward, and landing in test releases! 🎉
Show threadPaul Wouters 🇪🇺🇨🇦11h ago
@kaiengert pet peeve: one should never call ijes own thing “novel” 😜
Show threadKai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)10h ago

@letoams the draft says it's novel

from https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-mailmaint-unobtrusive-signatures-01.html

"It introduces a novel structure for signed email "

I'm sorry if it wasn't appropriate to use that word here.

Unobtrusive End-to-End Email Signatures

This document deals with end-to-end cryptographically signed email. It introduces a novel structure for signed email that is designed to avoid creating any disturbance in legacy email clients. This "unobtrusive" signature structure removes disincentives for signing email.

Show threadPaul Wouters 🇪🇺🇨🇦2h ago
@kaiengert lol - sorry it’s a pet peeve whenever I read some attack paper describing themselves as a novel attack 🤣🤣 if I saw that draft I likely would have commented on that too 🤣