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Why our RSA key do not work on Windows (lemmy.wtf)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I promote encryption in my union, association and workplace. Currently, not every computer run linux, and some still run windows.

However, I succeed in making everyone use thunderbird; I try now to make every email encrypted. It work pretty well until I try to encrypt a shared address (let say "contact@org") :

The RSA key work well on thunderbird on linux, but fail to decrypt email on thunderbird on windows.

What am I missing ? Thunderbird seems to support ECC encryption; is it more suited ?

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[–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago

Okay for the record :

  • ECC key work
  • According to one randoms on stackexchange, ECC is as safe as RSA, and now got a patent free implementation ¹²

So it seems that they is no reason to not use ECC instead of RSA in this context

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