1 Topic by ericbodden

(1 replies, posted in Requests)

Hello.

A year ago or so I posted asking about the possibility of automatic or opportunistic encryption. It was not possible back then but now that FireGPG can download keys from key servers it should be possible.

The official PGP product supports opportunistic encryption for Outlook. Basically what it does is: as are about to send an email, it....

1) tries to find keys for all the recipients first in the keyring and then on the keyserver
  a) if a key is found in the keyring it takes that key
  b) if a key is not found in the keyring but can be downloaded then it is downloaded and added to the keyring
2) if PGP was able to find keys for all recipients then the email is encrypted with all these keys and the key of the sender, if not then the email is sent unencrypted.

I think this is very useful because it means that you don't have to remember to encrypt mails, it just works automatically if possible.

It would be great if you could add this to your wish list. Thanks!

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2 Reply by ericbodden

(9 replies, posted in New versions)

Also about this here:

"With plain text, don't write lines that begin with '> ' or FireGPG will think it's the beginning of the old mail."

Why do you have to recognize the "old mail"? Why not just encrypt everything that's in the input field. Most certainly, one would like to encrypt everything, including what was previously sent, wouldn't one?

Eric

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3 Reply by ericbodden

(9 replies, posted in New versions)

Hi and thanks a lot for the update!

About "Auto-select recipients for crypt in Gmail": Right now, firegpg only lists and selects the primary ID (email address) for each key. For example, this here is my key:

C:\Program Files\Windows Privacy Tools\GnuPG>gpg --list-keys
ocuments and Settings/Eric/Application Data/GnuPG\pubring.gpg
-------------------------------------------------------------
1024D/BB465582 2003-04-23 Eric Bodden <ebodde@sable.mcgill.ca>
                           Eric Bodden (Major Key) <eric@bodden.de>
                           Eric Bodden <ericbodden@gmx.de>
                           Eric Bodden <eric.bodden@rwth-aachen.de>
                           Eric Bodden <bodden@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
...

FireGPG here only lists the first ID, ebodde@sable.mcgill.ca. Would it be able to show/auto-select the other IDs too?

In addition, it would be great if there was an option to now only auto-select the keys but really auto-use them, so that the dialog is not even shown, if a key exists for all recipients.

Thanks!

Eric

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4 Reply by ericbodden

(9 replies, posted in Bugs & problems)

As an addendum to that: In my case I noticed that the black window also flashes up when a new window is opened via clicking on a link in the browser, even if that window shows a website that has nothing to do with gmail.

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5 Topic by ericbodden

(0 replies, posted in Requests)

The official PGP plugin for Outlook allows one to encrypt by default, that is whenever a mail is sent to a set of recipients and for all of those one has a public key then the mail is encrypted with all their keys. (I think it even allows to split the mail into an encrypted one for people of who one has the keys and an unencrypted one for the rest of them, but that would maybe be overkill.) It also has an option of automatically loading keys from a keyserver.

At least basic support for "always try to encrypt" would be great.

But thanks a lot for this wonderful plugin already so far!

Eric

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