Decrypting mails but keep folders encrypted? Mailcrypt 3.5.4/pGnus0.97

Jonas Steverud d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se
10 Dec 1999 12:32:41 +0100


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Mailcrypt 3.5.4/pGnus0.97/GPG 1.0.0

When I recieve a encrypted email and I decrypt it using Mailcrypt, the
*decrypted* mail is stored in the nnfolder - but I want it to be
*encrypted*! I want to keep my private mail private even *after* I've
read them.

I.e.:

1. An encrypted mail arrives and is stored in specified folder,
   nnfolder:Foobar - still encrypted.

2. I open the mail and decrypt it (C-c / d) and reads it.

3. The *decrypted* text is saved to the nnfolder:Foobar isntead of the
   encrypted.

4. Anyone that can read my files[1] can now read the mail as plaintext
   and if he has been smart he has first got the encrypted mail.

5. Repeat 1-4 until the villian has enough with plaintexts/encrypted
   text to to make some attacks at my secure key.

Using Mailcrypt is not the most secure way in the fist place but much
securer then to save the plaintext.


Footnotes: 
[1]  No-one (except root) by default - unless the system is broken into.
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