Great news. Nelson Bolyard fixed the interoperability problem. There was a
problem in how gpgsm encoded cipher preferences. Thunderbird crypto library
was made more lenient in what it accepted. So, now, TB would correctly
responds to KMail using 3DES instead of RC/40.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379625

Not sure when this fix will make it to a release.

Still unresolved:
* support of AES by Thunderbird
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379753
* Thunderbird should not support weak crypto
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84213
* correct generation of SMimeCapabilities by gpgsm
  http://www.intevation.de/roundup/aegypten/issue754
* GPGSM does not recognize Verisign certs because of MD2 hash algo
  http://www.intevation.de/roundup/aegypten/issue430

-- 
Nick
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