[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS-Everywhere equivalent for Thunderbird

[Peter Eckersley]

Currently the install.rdf entry for HTTPS Everywhere includes an entry for
Thunderbird, but since putting it there I've never actually tested to see what
it does, if anything ;).

The Decentralized SSL Observatory functionality (submitting and checking TLS
certificates) in the HE development branch would be one very useful thing that
could be added to Thunderbird.

I'm not sure if there are APIs to control the parameters you're interested in,
but it would certainly be worth a look.  I'm happy to accept patches that make
HTTPS Everywhere do useful stuff if you install it in Thunderbird.

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 05:39:13PM +0100, sajolida wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I'm part of the team developping Tails [1], a live system based on Tor.
> 
> We are thinking about replacing our current email client with Icedove
> (the unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird available in Debian).
> 
> And we were wondering whether you'd ever thought about making a
> equivalent of HTTPS-Everywhere for Thunderbird. First it would help the
> autoconfig to choose a strong set of IMAP/POP/SMTP parameters and then
> prevent the user to downgrade them.
> 
> We understand that this will be, technically speaking, a totally
> different project than HTTPS-Everywhere but still with a similar idea in
> mind.
> 
> Does that makes sense?
> 
> [1] https://tails.boum.org/
> 
> - -- 
> sajolida
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