From: Andreas Fuchs <asf@void.at>
Subject: Re: 2002-01-08 / sending encrypted, but storing plain
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 22:22:37 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <avi8bd$gd9$1@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34r8jha06.fsf@HayekA.Hayek.com>
Today, Jochen Hayek <Jochen_Hayek@acm.org> wrote:
> Usually if I send encrypted messages, I don't want to store them
> locally encrypted, as I can't re-decrypt them anyway. If it is
> something, I want to keep encrypted, I keep it on an encrypted
> partition anyway.
>
> So is it a bug or is it just a feature (for the time being?
Feature. If you store messages you sent encrypted in decrypted form,
somebody could a) read them and, worse, b) launch a known-plaintext
attack on your messages and find out your private key without your
knowledge. Two bad things, IMHO.
Solution: gpg (pgp too, IIRC) can encrypt to many receipients,
though. Gpg even has an option for that: Put
encrypt-to Jochen_Hayek@acm.org
into your ~/.gnupg/options file, and all should work as you expect.
--
Andreas Fuchs, <asf@acm.org>, asf@jabber.at, antifuchs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-08 22:22 UTC|newest]
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2003-01-08 16:38 Jochen_Hayek
2003-01-08 22:22 ` Andreas Fuchs [this message]
2003-01-09 11:14 ` Werner Koch
[not found] <m3iswzfuwm.fsf@HayekA.Hayek.com>
2003-01-08 19:39 ` Werner Koch
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