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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/25/2015 4:31 AM, R Kent James
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Should this be a focus for Thunderbird development?<br>
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I'm going to be a surprising voice and opine "no."<br>
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End-to-end email encryption is a very hard problem, one with no real
clear solution. It is way too easy for us to overpromise and
underdeliver in this regard, particularly with looming Mozilla
disasters such as removal of XPCOM. We don't really have the
technical expertise in our developer base to be able to propose any
radical solutions, and we largely don't have the contacts or
administrator knowledge to bring in other stakeholders for new
proposed protocols.<br>
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That's not to say we should be doing nothing. There are pain points
when using today's security UI that are well within our ability to
fix (such as being able to search encrypted messages), and we should
be receptive to ideas and experiments here (although implementing
untested protocols in core Thunderbird is where I would draw the
line).<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Joshua Cranmer
Thunderbird and DXR developer
Source code archæologist</pre>
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