Should always add myself as recipient when ecrypting?

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:44, paolo.bolzoni.brown at gmail.com said:

> myself as recipient when encrypting a file, of course, in addition of
> the real recipient.

That allows you to delete the plaintext while still being able to get it
back.

> Is there a reason not to?

If you want to send an anonymous message it is better not to encrypt to
an additional key.  It is also smart not to use a wildcard
(--throw-keyid) for your own key so that in case your secret key leaks
it won't be possible to show that the message has also been encrypted to
you.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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