Is a secret key compromised by known cleartext?

tito@rumford.de tito@rumford.de
Sat May 31 10:10:02 2003


I'm sorry if this is a faq:

If I got an email with a message in cleartext immediately=20
followed by the same message encrypted to my public key --=20
would that change the status of my secret key (being secret)=20
abruptly to "being well known"?

Wolfgang Tschauner