How to send encrypted emails with Mozilla Thunderbird

pgp | The Thunderbird Blog Today the Thunderbird project is happy to announce that for the future Thunderbird 78 release, planned for summer 2020, we will add built-in functionality for email encryption and digital signatures using the OpenPGP standard. This new functionality will replace the … Continue reading Thunderbird to add built-in support for OpenPGP email Oct 08, 2019 Creating PGP Keys on Thunderbird version 52.1.1

Thunderbird to add built-in support for OpenPGP email

How to use PGP encryption on Windows for free using Gpg4win

The popular extension Enigmail brings full-fledged OpenPGP support to Thunderbird. Enigmail uses the gpg installation of the OS and does use its configuration and the keyring. This leaves things flexible, meaning if Enigmail is uninstalled, the gpg setup stays functional. First things first, we are going to install Thunderbird itself.

PGP is a time-tested and proven method of protecting email communications with end-to-end encryption (which prevents emails from being read by any third parties, including the email provider). Historically, PGP has been difficult to use, and it was not possible for most users to set up and regularly use PGP. Thunderbird — Release Notes (52.8.0) — Thunderbird