Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

[Chris Narkiewicz]

On 11/10/2019 19:15, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Why the heck don't they just run gpg the way enigmail did?

They don't want to bundle GnuPG because of GnuPG licence:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:2020#OpenPGP_engine

Requiring user to set up GnuPG separately is out of question if
they want to achieve any sensible level of adoption.

There is another matter of key distribution and I guess they plan
on taking control over it to provide acceptable level of UX.

Cheers,
Chris