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Andreas Fuchs <asf@acm.org> writes:

> I just saw something that shocked me. I had sent an encrypted mail to a
> friend of mine and tried to read it in the archive. Guess what?
> 
> The mail that is stored in my archive group is not encrypted in any
> way.

If this is not acceptable in your environment, you need a
cryptographic filesystem anyway, so I don't consider this a problem.