Re: User experience of --hidden-recipient encryption

2016-01-31 Thread Bjarni Runar Einarsson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the replies everyone. I think it's pretty clear what I need to do! All the best, - Bjarni - -- PageKite.net lets your personal computer be part of the web. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWrmFUAAoJEI4ANxY

Re: User experience of --hidden-recipient encryption

2016-01-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:32, b...@pagekite.net said: > a) I use --hidden-recipient Never. You leak the information that there is a BCC, so it is only half-blind. > b) I send them their own separate copy of the mail, encrypted only to them That is how all proper MUAs do it. > How does this w

Re: User experience of --hidden-recipient encryption

2016-01-31 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 31/01/16 13:20, Andrey Utkin wrote: > Leakage of exact number of hidden recipients can be mitigated by > adding random number of pseudo-recipients There is a lot of literature on masking the length of packets with random padding. It's not as straightforward as it seems. I think this has anologu

Re: User experience of --hidden-recipient encryption

2016-01-31 Thread Andrey Utkin
On 30.01.2016 14:36, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 29/01/16 19:32, Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: >> Also, if I go with a), does that leak the fact that there were >> hidden recipients? Does it leak how many? > > I'd say yes and yes. Every recipient has their own Public Key Encrypted > Session Key (PKE

Re: User experience of --hidden-recipient encryption

2016-01-30 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 29/01/16 19:32, Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: > If the user only has one public/private key pair, I assume the > experience isn't too bad, GnuPG will just make a guess. But if > the user has multiple keys, do they have to enter the passphrase > for each in succession, as gpg tries to guess how t

Re: User experience of --hidden-recipient encryption

2016-01-29 Thread Ludwig Hügelschäfer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29.01.16 19:32, Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: > (...) Using --hidden-recipient is more efficient and easier to > implement, but I wonder how this is handled on the receiving end? > If the user only has one public/private key pair, I assume the

User experience of --hidden-recipient encryption

2016-01-29 Thread Bjarni Runar Einarsson
Hello GnuPG-users! I am (still) working on Mailpile, and it was brought to my attention that if I send encrypted mail with folks in the BCC line, the fact that they got a copy is leaked unless: a) I use --hidden-recipient b) I send them their own separate copy of the mail, encrypted only to the