Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)Mar 25

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 threadPaul Wouters 🇪🇺🇨🇦Mar 25
@kaiengert pet peeve: one should never call ijes own thing “novel” 😜
Show threadKai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)

@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.

Mar 25 at 7:12pmWeb
Show threadPaul Wouters 🇪🇺🇨🇦Mar 26
@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 🤣
Show threadKai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)Apr 8

@letoams Paul, based on your suggestion, we have removed the word "novel" from the draft:
https://gitlab.com/andrewgdotcom/unobtrusive-signatures/-/commit/9412978554734463204eee924da4f09e5eed99ab

That's what you prefer, despite the smileys you had added, right? 🙂

Merge branch 'remove-novel' into 'main' (94129785) · Commits · Andrew Gallagher / unobtrusive-signatures · GitLab

Remove the term "novel" from the abstract. See merge request andrewgdotcom/unobtrusive-signatures!27

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Show threadPaul Wouters 🇪🇺🇨🇦Apr 8
@kaiengert awesome 😀😀