On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 05:45:47PM -0500, Xu Wang wrote: > Hi, > > I am learning more about PGP encryption with mutt, and am following this > guide: > http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/MuttGuide/UseGPG > > There is a part which discusses about "also encrypt the message using > the author's public key". This is very useful because now I can > decrypt the message that I send (in case I want to see what I sent). I > would like to understand more what happens. > > When I encrypt with public key of recipient *and* with my public key, > is this to mean that I send two separate messages, one encrypted with > recipient public key and a separate one with my public key? Or it is > possible to send *one* message that both the recipient and me are > capable of decrypting. I am trying to understand how this magic works.
The latter. You'll create one email which both you and the recipient will be able to decrypt.
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