sign encrypted emails

Peter Lebbing peter at digitalbrains.com
Fri Jan 3 12:13:04 CET 2014


On 03/01/14 10:57, Hauke Laging wrote:
> If I receive an email from you which is not encrypted and signed (as the 
> outer layer) then I go on red alert. Like today I might if the message is
> not encrypted or not signed.

How do you know the sender doesn't have an unencrypted copy of the message in
an easily broken into online backup service? The encryption of one copy of a
message doesn't imply the confidentiality of all copies that exist.

HTH,

Peter.

-- 
I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail.
You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy.
My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter>



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