certificat for a key pair

Mon Jun 3 07:26:22 CEST 2013

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On 6/2/2013 10:06 PM, John Clizbe wrote:
> Speaking as one of those people who took part in the discussion 
> creating that advice...

Speaking as another one of those people who took part in that
discussion: although the move to a pure-Javascript implementation has
done a lot to minimize this rule, I think John's "the 'same place' rule
is pretty much gone" needs a little explanation.

The number of different Linux distros, the number of different
customized Windows builds of Thunderbird, the number of different
customized OS X builds of Thunderbird... if you add up all these
variations you'll probably hit triple digits.  On top of that, each
distro may support several different versions of Thunderbird, and do
different optimizations to each.  We don't have the resources to test
Enigmail against every custom version of Thunderbird, and so we can't
make guarantees.  Moving to all-Javascript has made it far more likely
that Enigmail will work without a problem, but you're still taking
chances.

As John said, the 'same place' rule is pretty much gone.  But make sure
to remember the rest of what he said, which was that it's still a strong
recommendation.