Enigmail and p≡p are together for developing Enigmail/p≡p

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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The following press release was published yesterday (unfortunately I
had no time to re-post it earlier):


Encryption add-on Enigmail and pretty Easy privacy (p≡p)[1] are
joining in development of a solution for the well-known mail client
Thunderbird. The goal is to make encryption as easy as possible, said
Enigmail's project lead Patrick Brunschwig and p≡p's head of
development Volker Birk in a common press release. Enigmail and p≡p
will offer p≡p technology for any Thunderbird user. Thunderbird is
still most popular among free email programs on desktop PCs and Laptops.

"Enigmail offers the most-used solution for mail encryption as Free
Software for many years now. But we don't want to rest on our
laurels.", Brunschwig explains. "Still way too few people are able to
encrypt. But this is inevitable to protect privacy." That is to be
changed with the partnership. "p≡p is offering the possibility to
encrypt fully automatically. This way our users are gaining the
highest amount of security, while even not be touched by the process
at all. At the same time p≡p is offering compatibility to OpenPGP and
S/MIME, which is necessary to integrate into mail infrastructures."

"Being the trailblazer, Enigmail managed to provide one of the
greatest user interfaces for mail encryption.", Birk says. "To date
Enigmail is still the front-runner here. Together with Enigmail we're
thinking beyond this: the default for email has to be encrypted and
not unencrypted! For this purpose p≡p is offering the possibility to
encrypt without any user interaction needed like managing keys.
Thunderbird is for p≡p a strategic platform in Free Software: no other
free mail program has reached this spread. Therefore, it was the
logical choice to ask our colleagues at Enigmail for a cooperation.
Who else could deliver more know-how of integrating encryption into
Thunderbird?"

The development partnership is meant to lead into common project
Enigmail/p≡p. As release date for a very first version Enigmail and
p≡p are aiming for December 2015.


[1] http://pep-project.org/
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