GPG and BCC

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Sun Apr 13 11:03:11 CEST 2014


On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:59, kloecker at kde.org said:

> encrypted with the keys of all public recipients (To, Cc). And n copies 
> for the n Bcc recipients where each copy is encrypted with the key of 
> one Bcc recipient. That's what KMail does.

And that is the Right Thing to do.  --throw-keyids or -R only remove the
keyid but still encrypts to the BCC recipient.  The extra encryption
packet would be a good indication for the use of BCC with a broken
mailer.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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