PGP Encryption

[John M Price, PhD]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Alexander Sarras wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:36:56 +0100, xavier caballe wrote:
> 
> > 
> > >Can anyone tell me how to pick a public key from my pgp keyring to
> > >encrypt a message?  I click on the encryption button, but it uses _my_
> > >private key.  I am using pmmail 98 under win nt.
> > 
> > I don't know about PMMail 98, but in PMMail 2000 you can do that on Account -> Properties -> Security and select the 
> > appropiate key on the  "Select the key ID to be used for this account".
> > 
> No! This should be the senders key, otherwise nothing would work correctly.
> It's used for signing emails and when encrypting the message is
> additionally encrypted with the senders public key, so it stays readable
> for the sender. It only can be encrypted to a receiver if the receivers key
> is on the keyring (Watch out, those email-addresses have to match!). 
> 
> So as far I can tell everything seems to work correctly there.

AFAIK, the following should happen:

The message should be encrypted with the sender's key for the sent-mail
folder, or left in plain text.

PMMail should get the keys for all the recipients, and encrypt accordingly
- each recipient receiving an individualy encrypted message which he or
she can decrypt.

I've yet to see it work.

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