Automatic encryption when replying to an encrypted email

[Irina Oltu]

Binary package hint: evolution

Using S/MIME encryption for encryption some highly secure communication:
when an encrypted message is received, the default reply does not use S/MIME encryption to encrypt ougoing email.
which is very insecure - when a user replies to an encrypted th email-client
must enable encryption feature. If it is left to user to decide whether to encrypt the outgoing message, he may simply forget to do it, and this will result in
the communication meant to be encrypted - to go plain.
Enabling "default encryption of all outgoing messages" is extremely inconvenient, as it is only 5% of all communication that has to be encrypted, while remaining 95% has to be plain.

Thank you!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug, that's known upstream, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252111

[Ux64 (u-x64)]

Confirmed: Unencrypted replies are major security issue. It requires me to remember to set encryption & signature option every time when I reply to encrypted message. Btw. It also happens with GPG not only S/MIME.

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

bug from 2008 - version not longer supported
change status to invalid

[David Ayers (ayers)]

I can confirm that this issue has been fixed at least since Evolution 3.2.3 provided by 12.04 LTS