On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:44, paolo.bolzoni.br...@gmail.com said: > myself as recipient when encrypting a file, of course, in addition of > the real recipient.
That allows you to delete the plaintext while still being able to get it back. > Is there a reason not to? If you want to send an anonymous message it is better not to encrypt to an additional key. It is also smart not to use a wildcard (--throw-keyid) for your own key so that in case your secret key leaks it won't be possible to show that the message has also been encrypted to you. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users