User experience of --hidden-recipient encryption

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:32, bre at pagekite.net said:

> a) I use --hidden-recipient  

Never.  You leak the information that there is a BCC, so it is only
half-blind.

> b) I send them their own separate copy of the mail, encrypted only to them  

That is how all proper MUAs do it.

> How does this work in practice? Is --hidden-recipient a decent
> user experience for the recipient?

No, because you need to do trial decryption only to realize that the
sender forgot to encrypt to you ;-).  Trial decryption may even mean to
swap your cards.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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