I was setting up a new email in Thunderbird (android) and Kmail (because the version of Tbird in the Fedora repo is old and doesn’t have the bugfix required for me to add new accts, so I’m stuck until they decide to update it) and I noticed both support something called Autocrypt in the pgp settings. I searched it but got some bullshit about car keys, so I figured maybe someone here would know.
It seems like a useful thing especially for those who claim pgp is too difficult, but I’ve never heard it mentioned once, and so I’m left wondering why that is. Is it secure? Does using it cause interoperability issues with people who don’t use pgp or autocrypt (say some gmail user)? Is there some other drawback I’m too blind to see?
Anyone with any advice or experience using this “Autocrypt” that I didn’t think to ask please chime in as well!
Autocrypt (and thunderbird and kmail ans k9mail and…) still requires you to roll your own pgp key, it’s not like proton or tuta.
Also, not planning on discussing terrorist plots over email, and even if you do that over signal your metadata can still get you drone-struck, but thanks for the general advice. That said, I’d still like to use pgp when possible and still have questions about this “autocrypt” for anyone who has heard of it before, if any such person is available.
Yeah from what I understood it’s basically an easy implementation of encryption between you and your contacts. So you’re right not like Proton or Tuta.