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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:28:33 +0200
From: Noel Kuntze <noel@...ilie-kuntze.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Enigmail warning

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Hello Henri,

I'm using Thunderbird 31.0 with Enigmail 1.7 and can't reproduce that issue.
I'm on Arch Linux, what OS are you using? Also, please state any specialties.

Regards,
Noel Kuntze

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Am 18.08.2014 um 08:22 schrieb Henri Salo:
> Please read: http://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/forum/support/thread/3e7268a4/
> 
> Quote from thread below:
> 
> Enigmail 1.7 is completely broken for my purposes.
> 
> Steps to reproduce the problem:
> 
> 1) Write an email in TB.
> 2) Ensure "Force encryption" in Enigmail.
> 3) Ensure "Force signing" in Enigmail.
> 4) Recheck encryption and signing settings... OK.
> 5) Send the email.
> 6) Look at the received email. OOPS. It is NOT signed and NOT encrypted.
> 
> Sorry to say this so directly, but an encryption system, which CONFIRMS
> to the user in it's graphical user interface on two different places
> that it will encrypt AND THEN SENDS THE EMAIL WITHOUT ANY ENCRYPTION IN
> PLAIN TEXT ... is just the BIGGEST IMAGINABLE CATASTROPHE.
> 
> Sorry for my profane language but there is simply no excuse for such
> bullshit.
> 
> I am currently preparing a crypto class for journalists next week to
> teach them how to use safe email.
> 
> HOW am I going to explain that? A system tells the user in a separate
> window as well as in a menu line that everything will be encrypted but
> then it simply FORGOT to ENCRYPT and, ooops, their report will be
> intercepted and their source will be tortured ?
> 
> Ok...let's see....maybe there is some magic incompatibility with the TB
> or OS version or the specific configuration I used or whatever... As a
> computer scientist I can imagine many bug-explanations.
> 
> Good that I am just a computer scientist. As a serious user (dissident,
> whistle-blower, diplomatic or military user) I would now be waiting for
> the bad guys come and get me with their water-board.
> 
> Still as a computer scientist I need an answer to which system I will
> teach in my class next week. Command-line PGP ?!?
> 
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