Re: Encrypting outgoing message but not Gcc?

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

spamtrap@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> [ ... ]
>
> Ah, now I remember - sorry, I've been misinforming about the "done
> anything special part"; actually I've put:
>
>  encrypt-to asjo@koldfront.dk
>
> in my ~/.gnupg/options.

Aha! ... but then, how do I tell Gnus to NOT use that parameter to
encrypt the actual message that is being sent to the recipient (since I
want to use _her_ public key for that), but to indeed use it when
encrypting the message for my local Gcc?


>> Also, I think there's a gap somewhere in my understanding of all
>> this.  How can it be that something encrypted twice, once with the
>> recipient's public key and once with yours, would only need your
>> private key to be decrypted?  [ ... ]
>
> I'm not able to adequately and comprehensibly explain the theory, but
> I think it's a proporty of either assymetric key cryptography in
> general or the way PGP/GnuPG is constructed (the latter being less
> likely, probably, perhaps).

I think, perhaps, I understand it, if I'm following you, maybe. :)

Thank you.


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>   Best regards,

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 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com