There is reason for this: Email programs save copies of outgoing email, and if the symmetric key was just encrypted using the recipients key the sender would not be able to read it. So a typical email program encrypts the key using the senders and the recipients keys and as a result the sender can decrypt the message. Therefore the need for the sender to have a certificate for this to work...
-- Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Christian Biesinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Encrypted emails Pratik wrote: > Currently it seems like I cannot send an encrypted mail if I don't have > a certificate for myself. Right. And I wonder why this is. Well, I'll file a bug for this. *time passes* Bug 141782 posted -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
