Hi everyone,

I was wondering if you know a way to use the generated OpenPGP key created trough Thunderbird to sign PDF’s ?

(Devuan distro)

Thanks.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    13·
    9 months ago

    That would be a perfect place for a Thunderbird addon. Add as attachment, sign with pgp key, send

  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
    8·
    9 months ago

    Do you mean using PDF’s built-in signature mechanisms? I don’t think so.

    If you want to do regular PGP file signing you can export the key from Thunderbird and do whatever you want with it.

  • Rick_C137@programming.devOPEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    Thank you all for your quick reactions !!

    To summarize if I want to use the PDF built-in signing I will need to convert my OpenPGP into a X.509 cert otherwise I can simply use the OpenPGP file signing

    I want to stick to the UNIX Philosophy especially:

    Write programs that do one thing and do it well.

    So I will use the OpenPGP signing tool :)

    Thanks !

    • Laser@feddit.de
      1·
      9 months ago

      OpenPGP is kind of like the opposite of that - it does a lot of things, and none of them particularly well. To quote:

      PGP does a mediocre job of signing things, a relatively poor job of encrypting them with passwords, and a pretty bad job of encrypting them with public keys. PGP is not an especially good way to securely transfer a file. It’s a clunky way to sign packages. It’s not great at protecting backups. It’s a downright dangerous way to converse in secure messages.

      minisign is more in the UNIX spirit.