Should always add myself as recipient when ecrypting?

[Brian Minton]

Here's a possible reason: suppose your recipient is being targeted by an
enemy who wishes to read their communications. They have determined through
traffic analysis that you are in communication with their target. They may
then attempt to convince/coerce/trick you to decrypt the message.  In other
words, by adding an additional human target, you reduce the need for actual
cryptanalysis.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 6:50 AM Paolo Bolzoni <paolo.bolzoni.brown at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> The subject pretty much says it all already, I am using GnuPG 2.1.11
> (with libgcrypt 1.6.5) and I was wondering if I should always add
> myself as recipient when encrypting a file, of course, in addition of
> the real recipient.
>
> Is there a reason not to?
>
> Cheers,
> Paolo
>
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