GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 766277
Decrypt messages encrypted as PGP/MIME or inline PGP
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:27:59 UTC
When a user has a valid GPG key configured for their computer's local account (Bug 766273) and they receive a message that is encrypted either using PGP/MIME or as inline PGP, the message should be automatically decrypted. Per the discussion in Bug 713403, there's a number of subtleties to be worked out, especially sounding full-text search, attachment handling and so on. Right now, I'm favouring a just-in-time approach - decrypting the message when first viewed by the user and at that point, saving attachments, adding the message body to the FTS table, possibly writing the decrypted version to disk, and so on. This should probably be an automatic process when the message is first displayed for viewing, but since it may take some time it may need some additional "loading" indication in the UI. The user should be subtly notified when viewing a decrypted message, and warned in an obvious way that the message could not be decrypted if an error occurs during the process. Note that the UI changes for this will be impacted by changes being made for Bug 765516 and will need to be coordinated with that work.
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