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On 02/02/2019 20:08, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 2/2/19, Thomas D Dial <td...@acm.org> wrote: >> I noticed this a few weeks > or a month ago and took it to be a somewhat >> inelegant, maybe incompletely implemented, feature intended to improve >> metadata security. I believe "Encrypted message" also becomes the >> subject of the transmitted message. >> >> Exposure of the metadata showing who is in contact with whom, and when, >> is pretty much inescapable, but the subject line, which is not >> encrypted, also can provide useful information to an eavesdropper, even >> if she cannot decrypt the message body. This is noted in some PGP or GPG >> documentation I have seen, accompanied by recommendations to obscure the >> Subject: line and put the true subject within the body. > > > That's what I was thinking as I read this thread. That's a perfect > spot for it... right at the top of the email's main content/body where > it then sits ready for a quick copy-cut-paste when the time's > appropriate. > > It would be like how at least some of us temporarily save intended > recipient email addresses in that same spot while saving draft email > copies. That's an old netiquette type trick so that things fail in the > event we accidentally click "Send" instead of "Save Draft" or their > equivalents across email clients. :) > > That part I read about how subject lines all look the same once > encrypted > GACK! It sounds like there's room for a wishlist bug > report about an option to somehow save a tickler of a reminder instead > of the real subject. A key as to the meaning of that tickler could > then be saved elsewhere, e.g. as a handwritten note, in the same way > passwords are occasionally saved on scraps of paper scattered > everywhere. :) > > Cindy :) Having the subject header copied to the top of the message body sounds like a good idea. I can do that manually but having software do that could be helpful to people too. A wish list seems a good idea too, anything to help improve software is a good thing. regards Paul :) Paul - -- Paul Sutton http://www.zleap.net https://www.linkedin.com/in/zleap/ gnupg : 7D6D B682 F351 8D08 1893 1E16 F086 5537 D066 302D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - https://www.enigmail.net/ iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEfW22gvNRjQgYkx4W8IZVN9BmMC0FAlxV+9sACgkQ8IZVN9Bm MC1wsBAArdZx4WupdW4/PbkYXqTv72dsugINC4Mc0E6nlOUKX7mXghh27oVvEZNa HnhH9L0kuOs9NmguQEYEIfoUNo3HJp0l5jkkJB9YB30sJdpycWHBbYBw3zsHrI/K dBYUlo9vIOPTXaFeWbBbUDsTBQfouiuDGzkbbj7UHtZEGr5x1L962O1G6bULNaIH figP391kBV6Zkz1q78g38N8eJTTkDaG075BWbwdvnRghgRIXAP1bRz0MSpaO7ogS Qz4gcUKt17LF5Q1p18iJc93gyIexNaBddTtE7yOlAEfTfKaeY0wGPjHnxzGOanlZ 9gun4rtCMGhbnsdeBp/OUSuTEAaP7BmAZni8eQMdUvuXsdgEJvaltBB2j/uZFDjN +1wkLPt2Szh+Z4vTzGkSa1PfEiqnKVDoIQIdEKjEGrUt81BwJELpKD61RNMViL9U +2+92sv84lQ1awn1nEOgRibsSlN7NgCgqYdfAa24ixHcswHo+e74k69eOUYc3LXd JYGqmobD2DaoVbtSJhuc1huhsrpZAyfxbDBbJPcNOJOAoDHCkH7EzJqhGwhYj9rd 72D5odF/dnHA07E9KUWqpOZa7ww1cbJKEFr0qTS/0OHSDIePx1D/kXmczWq3KAcR 8/zGvb8N1bejGcdMFGCFZmm4dfEheAg3QEvnQBZ0TnfjTk9PhzU= =3WWm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----