Re: [RCD] Mailvelope -> Firefox settings dissapearing issue

-- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl On 2015-08-31 14:59, Thomas Bruederli wrote: > Hello Hans > > Unfortunately we don't have a solution for this problem. The key > storage of Mailvelope is totally isolated and access for a web > application is only possible in a very limited way. Which is by design > an actually a key feature. > > Although we might check the availability of certain keys from within > Roundcube and providing a backup copy from the Roundcube side is > theoretically possible, it doesn't make much sense because it would > break the integrity of the key store by moving sensitive data (like > private keys) from the extension's isolated storage into the web > application's local storage which cannot be trusted. > > An immediate workaround might be to switch to Chrome where the storage > backend for extensions seems to be more reliable. But other than that, > you have to wait for Firefox to fix that issue. > > Best, > Thomas > > P.S. check out the latest version from our dev-mailvelope branch. It > comes with an import feature for public keys if they're missing for > certain message recipients. > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Hans de Raad info@hcderaad.nl > wrote: >> Dear RC-devs, >> >> A question that is probably outside of your area of influence but >> nonetheless I'm interested if you have had any more feedback on this. >> If you >> don't then a short "no" would ofcourse be very much acceptable. >> >> Recently on the ML it was announced that you were looking into more >> functional integration with Mailvelope, that sounds very promising, >> however >> Mailvelope (at least on Firefox) suffers from a very problematic bug, >> namely >> it frequently looses all keys and settings due to some unreliable >> behaviour >> of the extension storage back end in firefox: >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1091244 >> >> And: >> https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope/issues/304 >> >> There are a number of tickets opened in the Mailvelope Github, however >> no >> usable remedy has been found yet. Do you know of any way to solve/work >> around this? As it is effectively prohibiting me from using Mailvelope >> at >> all. >> >> Best regards, >> Hans de Raad >> >> -- >> OpenNovations / DevHdR >> >> Van Sevenbergestraat 49 >> 2274PK Voorburg >> >> Tel +31 6 83578847 >> >> www.hcderaad.nl >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Roundcube Development discussion mailing list >> dev@lists.roundcube.net >> http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ > Roundcube Development discussion mailing list > dev@lists.roundcube.net > http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/dev