-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Icham,
your description is not cear enough for me to understand your problem. Please try to explain more in detail what exactly you did, what you want to achieve and the issues you encounter. General hint on keys (in case you didn't know): * Encryption is done with the receipient's key (only, no sender key involved) - - A sender can only encrypt a message TO a receipient using his/her public key - - To decrypt, the receipient needs his private key of that very key pair * Digital signing is done with the sender's key (only, no receipient key inv.) - - A sender can only sign a message using his/her private key. - - Anyone with access to the corresponding public key can verify the message. > I have installed Enigmail You installed both GnuPG and Enigmail on top of Thunderbird on a Mac, correct? Did you the GnuPG installer from https://www.gpgtools.org/ ? Versions? > and created a public key on it. You created a key pair for yourself or import a public key of a correspondent? > Once I receive an email, it requests a passphrase You receive a signed message or a message encrypted to your public key? > and I have never chosen one. I now assume that you created a key pair, provided your public key to someone else, that other person tries to send you an encrypted message and you want to open it. Correct? Only if so: When you created your key, did you not choose a passphrase to protect your private key? You really should! > Thus, I can't open any messages when using enigmail. Why, what happens? > Do you know if there is a way to cope over this problem? Surely there is. Once things clear up a bit. Olav - -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (MingW32) Comment: Dies ist eine elektronische Signatur - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQGcBAEBAwAGBQJRLlgHAAoJEKGX32tq4e9WHioL/R7/qZJWfXeutj5myclms/b3 7Mo/Y0jbhQUit8+9uCsM3o8yFGCS7ilL1eTysVy61fC9a1Xn4fERRyQffov9WiYU VmXO/sXytuQwsf/bQDQ/wd/S+I4wVBP3qOm3rQtw/RIONz89PbLNTQq7Wz46aFLw dOkDdBimCOjoaEJk6cf71hNyN/YTjKDSX9NMbwVPo2Yh2w8ylLZqWv5XTtDvMDdz 8REliHJQplwe11B+/zrwGsCorcFPgvV6CKiybrf+oZhkvoUtJjru2vvdihlb5Uk3 3bA6YSWzxzdohdZbZ5PZm5S66Djc36hBlrtMAlPwAmUsRIjt2WLuDU44g/GGoEh4 ot1mubTrYuzBAG3vu7Jg+AdffM05he52am5uJyCjK69Cllq3hs+E+VMPOxKHq6NY ka86rpqEFvcbDngUBRVJXFT81QYgMPvZbuA2TQYP1ZagcFt7EoeZ+2CTAoRoMul9 JzXJE2Wsl1dWjsfiV3JHo+ddaju8jOJkYGqqkpzVMQ== =cDRW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
