Possibly - but probably not "encrypted with ... possibly sender's private key" <g>
On 26/08/2019 02:17, Phil Smith III wrote: > CM Poncelet wrote: > >> PGP allows sending encrypted emails/data to multiple recipients, where >> each recipient has a different private key, and this works AOK (but no >> idea how). > > > Trivial: the actual payload is encrypted with a random symmetric key. Then > THAT key is encrypted with the public key of each > recipient, and the package sent contains a copy for each recipient. So in > pseudo-crypto(!), if the data is being sent to Phil, > Charles, and CM, the package contains: > > > > This is for Phil: < copy of key K, encrypted with Phil's public key and > possibly sender's private key> > > This is for Charles: < copy of key K, encrypted with Charles's public key and > possibly sender's private key> > > This is for CM: < copy of key K, encrypted with CM's public key and possibly > sender's private key> > > <payload, encrypted with key K> > > > > Make sense? > > > > ...phsiii > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
