On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 01:23:19PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> Does this make that much sense? Why do I encrypt some mails? --> because I
> only want same very few people to be able to read them. This excludes (IMHO)
> even the system administrator, which would happily be able to read mails
> that would normally be saved in an encrypted state...
>
> This way I strongly recommend everybody to use 'set psp_encryptself' in
> ~/.muttrc (for PGP) or 'encrypt-to 0xKEYID' in ~/.gnupg/options (for GnuPG)
> instead of saving (encrypted) mails in plaintext...
Hiding data from the system administrator makes sense if you don't
have your secret key on the system. Just to prevent someone from the
illusion that encrypting messages is secure enough - password sniffers
can be very efficient, and even breaking pass phrases is possible.
Gero
