On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Mh... That means I've missed something really fundamental... > When you send an encrypted mail you send the encrypted > data and the receiver at some point has both, the public > key and your encrypted mail. Else, how should he read your > mail? Am I totally wrong?
It is the way around. You use the *public* key to *en*crypt to the recipient. The recipent uses his *private* key to *de*crypt. Of course you could include a private key in a viewer software so that anyone can encrypt files for use by this viewer. I think that is what you had in mind. Salam-Shalom, Werner _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
