-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 03/16/14 08:21, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > On 03/15/2014 02:28 PM, Egbert van der Wal wrote: >> I actually see encryption as less of an issue. When I send an >> encrypted message to someone, I need to know for sure that the >> recipient knows about PGP encryption and knows how to decode it. >> If I send an encrypted message to someone who does not use PGP, >> he/she cannot read it, no matter what. > > How do you send an encrypted message to someone who does not use > PGP? You need his public key to do that.
Exactly. How are you going to send an encrypted message to someone who does not have a public key? You can't. Period. Unless you separately arrange a symmetric encryption key to use or pre-arrange to send a symmetric encryption key out-of-band. It's a non-issue from the point of view of Enigmail. If you *can* send someone an encrypted message, you have their public key. If they don't have one, you don't have it either, and you can't. End of story. - -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications [email protected] [email protected] Landline: 603.293.8485 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEAREIAAYFAlMl+d4ACgkQ0DfOju+hMkkmPACglLEX3Ck6PjsHRz9j0unq6maY mhIAoMbURRphgGtl9mzuhQlFCmWPjJ8b =8A5S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
