[Enigmail] Idea for improvement usability of sending to mixed groups of recipients (with gpg and without gpg support)

[John Clizbe]

Faramir wrote:
>   Just playing to be Devil's advocate, let's suppose the following: "I
> want to send a message to some friends I met playing an online game. One
> of them is from China, and since the message says something about
> China's government, the email server's bot filtering messages would
> delete it, before my friend can read it. But all the other receivers are
> not from China, so they can print it and post is on their doors... it is
> not a problem for them. And if the message's content is not bad enough
> to put my friend in trouble, so all I need is to make it pass the filter."
>    In that scenario, I just need to send it encrypted to 1 person, not
> for all...
> 
>    By the way, I have heard all internet traffic to China is filtered,
> they can even block google and other things, so it _could_ happen.
> 
>    But also, I would just send it to my non-chinesse friends first, and
> then forward it encrypted to my chinesse friend... since it is not
> something I would be doing on daily basis, I don't need a new feature to
> work around that problem. And I agree with the idea that a security
> software should not allow users to think they are safe, when they are
> not... I would rather receive a warning saying: "this wont work", so I
> will have to thinks about it, and figure how to get around the problem,
> than to be allowed to make something that can be dangerous...

Would you also be willing to put your Chinese friend in danger?

It's possible the gov't might want to know just what it was that was hidden in
that encrypted email and subject your friend to some rubber-hose key extraction.

You need to think about that also.

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