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Re:Thunderbird 102 by oth001 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @02:40AM (#31917166)
How do you encrypt with Thunderbird?
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Re:Thunderbird 102 by kaiengert on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @06:25AM (#31918338)
Thunderbird supports OpenPGP and S/MIME for email encryption.

For how to set it up, see here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-help-setup-...

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Re:Thunderbird 102 by Faaak on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @03:07AM (#31917312)
It has native support with gpg's backend
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Re:Thunderbird 102 by kaiengert on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @06:23AM (#31918332)
Your statement needs some clarification.

Yes, Thunderbird supports OpenPGP, with a fully integrated solution.

However, Thunderbird doesn't use gpg by default, because of license incompatibility Thunderbird cannot bundle GnuPG software.

That's why Thunderbird uses the RNP library as its default OpenPGP backend.

You may optionally configure externally installed GnuPG for secret key operations, as described at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards

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