GnuPG asks for confirmation...

Laurent Jumet laurent.jumet at skynet.be
Fri Jun 2 15:03:45 CEST 2006


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Hello !

Mark Brown <broonie at sirena.org.uk> wrote:

>> > Why is someone sending an encrypted message to this list?
>> It's not encrypted.  It's just signed and armored.
>> Doesn't your mail client automatically display this for you?

> Many mail clients will assume that any GPG message is encrypted and
> prompt for a passphrase prior to invoking GPG.

    Are you sure?
    Security wouldn't be compromised if passphrase is given to anything else 
then gpg?

- -- 
Laurent Jumet
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