A Thunderbird extension to enable Blind Trust Before Verification for OpenPGP.
Status: Proof of Concept / WIP
- Automatic discovery of OpenPGP keys of your recipients with email-verifying keyservers & Web Key Directories.
- Easy key verification with magic wormhole
- Blind Trust Before Verification
- Easy to use for new users
- Automatic key import from WKD & keys.openpgp.org
- Sidebar in compose window
- Show key import status for each recipient(WKD, Keyserver, Local, None)
- Show if message encryption is possible
- Improve key search performance
- use IntervallTimer
- check if a keysearch is already running
- Refactoring
- Documentation
The extension can be built with ant. Open a new terminal in the main directory and execute ant.
The generated addon is created in the dist folder and can be imported in thunderbird.
The openpgp.js library is modified to work in thunderbird. The only modification is the use of a fake LocalStorage, because Thunderbird does not support LocalStorage.
Some parts of the code are taken from keys4all/keys4all.de, which is an Proof of Concept thunderbird extension for automatic key discovery/import, secured with DNSSEC/DANE. I worked as a part-time software developer at Fraunhofer SIT for the development of the Keys4All-Addon.
GPLv3