Bennett Todd [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> 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.
The point Mr. Helms was making is that the original poster asked how to
encrypt it with his *private* key. This would of course make it so that
anyone with his public key could read the message, and is probably not what
he meant. It's just a misunderstanding of how PGP works.
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