Re: [Enigmail] pep-json-server

Patrick Brunschwig <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:53:19 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.enigmail.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 14.08.2019 08:11, alpha beta wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I just noticed that whenever I open Thunderbird (60.7.0) having
> Enigmail enabled (2.0.12) a new process is spawned by a binary from
> inside the profile directory (pep-json-server).
> 
> It seems to be some kind of HTTP API server, but I wasn't able to find out more.
> 
> Do you also have the same process listening?
> 
> What is it, and why do Enigmail need it
> 
> I don't mind if Enigmail needs a server listening on localhost, but it
> seems that exiting Thunderbird does not kill the pep-json-server
> process, which is tedious.
> 
> Is this desired behaviour?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Cheers

If you use Enigmail in the "pEp Junior Mode", then the pep-json-server
is started. The pep-json-server is the pEp Engine that provides the JSON
API (over localhost http), which delivers all functionalities of pEp
(such as encryption, decryption, security level, trustwords, ...).

The pep-json-server is intended to be a daemon and does not need to be
stopped just because Thunderbird quits. Enigmail will reconnect to a
running pep-json-server if you restart Thunderbird, and other
applications using the same API could also connect to the same
pep-json-server. Thus, yes it's desired to work like this.

-Patrick

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