kristovatlas/osx-config-check

config check idea: check whether Apple Mail/Thunderbird are configured to either use GPGMail and/or S/MIME

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#58 opened on Jun 17, 2016

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Description

Checking for GPGMail should be fair straight forward -- already checking for some configs related to this at present. I don't have any experience with S/MIME in OS X mail clients, however, and don't want to dictate that users use one or the other to encrypt mail.

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Research direction
Investigate how Apple Mail and Thunderbird store configuration for GPGMail and S/MIME, and then implement detection checks.
Tech stack
python
Domain
desktopsecurity
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Feature
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3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Needs investigation
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PythonmacOS
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60