On Thursday, February 15, 2007, at 10:01AM, "Nomen Nescio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Nomen Nescio wrote: > >> I use thunderbird on my laptop and desktop with an IMAP server, and >> I've been mailing myself encrypted mails with website passwords so I >> have access to them on both computers. >> >> This is just as secure as encrypting a file and copying it onto both >> computers without using e-mail as a medium, right? >> >> Or am I doing something stupid? >> > >You're doing something "strange" anyway. The encryption is just as >strong either way, but any email client is liable to create temp >files and stuff which could hold unencrypted copies of your password >lists. Given that this is an IMAP account it's possible those temp >files exist on the IMAP server. :-(
Not true. Since encryption and decryption can only take place on the local computer, there won't be any "temp" files stored on the IMAP server. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
