Privacy guides recommends OpenKeychain under the category of “Encryption Software” that is used by many aplications on Android to provide encryption support, even some recommended email apps like FairEmail and K-9 Mail. I understand why it is useful and recommended (althought I never used it), but …

I’m also fine with not making any changes to our recommendation at this time. The warning on the GitHub repo implies that no new features will be added, not that it will suddenly break or will develop security issues. No longer adding features to a “basically complete” app should be fine with us (se…

[image] 8pen-s8urce: there any good alternatives to OpenKeychain? I would happily move on to some other alternative ,if one existed. There seems to be no other project currently providing openpgp support. Sadly we have to rely on openkeychain for k-9mail. Also i won’t suggest generating key-…

If openkeychain ever stops working there are still some options.. You copy encrypted text from mail and decrypt it in a tool of your choose. Obviously pretty inconvenient if you use pgp a lot. If someone could suggested some app for this? Mailvelope extension is working with Kiwi Browser, I tested…

I would like to edit my post again, but I think that I can’t (at least I don’t find an option), so I will writte this as a reply: The K-9 mail beta versions in f-droid target SDK 33 (Android 13), which is also likely to be the case for the Play Store beta versions (see the information in this blog …

Maybe K-9 Mail will at some point offer OpenPGP encryption for emails without requiring OpenKeychain, someone commented in the blog post linked in the end of this reply of mine: “Just make sure you get Spam filtering and Open PGP into it, guys!” And the comment above is an answer to that comment a…

It probably will happen eventually in order to have feature parity with Thunderbird on desktop

Well that depends on how you look at things. If you use any of the recommended provider that have a mobile client this issue does not exist. So that would without doubt be the best thing to do. I understand this is a sad realty but this clearly makes a point for the mail solutions that offer their …

https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain/issues/2856#issuecomment-1906954493 The vulnerability disclosure seems to have some some progress.

According to this , the security issue with OpenKeychain should be fixed (and the issue report in GitHub was also closed ). Also, considering that the OpenKeychain target sdk is updated to 34, the app should still work with Android 14 and with emails clients which target sdk 34, so this issue should …

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We’re aware of this, but given the nature of it, (there are no alternatives) we haven’t de-listed it.

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