feature request enable autocrypt

[arsen stasic]

autocrypt is a cryptographic protocol for email clients aiming to simplify key exchange and enabling encryption on basis of OpenPGP. These emails clients have implemented it:
Thunderbird, Mailpile, Delta Chat Messenger, K-9 Mail and Mutt.

In order to activate autocrypt in Mutt just following configure option is needed (see attached patch):
--enable-autocrypt

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04

2) apt-cache policy mutt
mutt:
  Installed: 1.13.2-1ubuntu0.2
  Candidate: 1.13.2-1ubuntu0.2

3) autocrypt support

4) autocrypt is not supported

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[arsen stasic (arsen)]

Dear package maintainers,

due to the fact that WoT (Web of Trust) for OpenPGP is broken [0] since June 2019 [1] (Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg)) it's a needed feature to simplify key exchange and enabling encryption on basis of OpenPGP.

Please consider my patch.

cheers,
Arsen

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/792366/
[1] https://dkg.fifthhorseman.net/blog/openpgp-certificate-flooding.html

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[arsen stasic (arsen)]

Mutt has a really good autocrypt documentation:

Mutt: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#autocryptdoc
NeoMutt: https://neomutt.org/guide/autocryptdoc.html