Even though some time went by since this bug has been filed, I would like to 
reply, because I had a similar strange experience today when I ported the 
Seahorse Nautilus plugin to Caja for the Mate desktop.
In my opinion it is meant to be rather a feature than a bug. After some hours 
of trying to understand what the source code does, I found the setting 
"encrypt-to-self" in the Gsettings under dconf->desktop.gnome.crypto.pgp. If 
this boolean is checked (what it is by default), the seahorse encryption will 
add your own key to the list of recipients. So you will always be able to 
decrypt a file even if you had only selected a foreign public key for 
encryption.
For some reason, the developers of this module decided to use a key for 
encryption, that you did not select!!!
After I unchecked the "encrypt-to-self" feature, the software behaved more 
predictable.

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  seahorse-tool uses wrong key to encrypt

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