Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

[Phillip Susi]

Werner Koch via Gnupg-users writes:

> Still, TB is still subject to those attacks because their primary
> encryption protocol is S/MIME and the last time I checked S/MIME (well,
> CMS for the nitpickers) does not supoport any kind of authenticated
> encryption.  In contarst OpenPGP provides this nearly for 2 decades.

What do you mean?  S/MIME authenticates the user's identity via the CA.