Hi Joan,

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, at 23:42:51 [GMT +0100] (which was 3:42 PM where
I live) you wrote:
JJ> Not so. You do not need the sender's key to read an encrypted
JJ> e-mail, because it will be encrypted to the recipient public key.
JJ> The recipient only needs his own private key.

Depends on how you encrypt it. If you encrypt a message using your own
secret key, then people would use your public key to decrypt it. This
is useful if you want to encrypt a message only to keep it from casual
eyes.


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