1999-11-22-05:47:43 Sebastian Helms:
> Hm, do you want to encrypt it to yourself ? Then you would do it with
> your public key.
I at least like to make sure everything I encrypt is encrypted to myself, as
well as to the recipient, so I can still read or use my file copy of the
message. Remember, with PGP and kin (I use GnuPG) you can encrypt to multiple
recipients; there's a seperate copy of the per-message randomly-generated
symmetric key attached to the message for each recipient, encrypted with
that recipient's public key.
> Or do you want to sign the message, which is in fact encrypting it with your
> provate key. Then you should just choose (p)gp - (s)ign message ;-)
Actually, no, signing isn't the same as encrypting; signing consists of
encrypting a message digest (crypto hash, like e.g. MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160) with
your private key. I have mutt and gpg set up to sign all my email --- like
this one --- but I only encrypt when corresponding with someone with whom I've
exchanged keys.
-Bennett
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