So, the only solution is to convince all my contacts (or at least the
ones I talk most to) to use the same system. Since I don't belive they
will, I can only change email services, like tormail or another
alternative...

Thanks anyway
Best regards

On 19/07/13 19:20, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 19.07.13 02:33, Fabio Esteves wrote:
>> Hi
>> I am not sure I am sending to the right place, but I've started using
>> enigmail with thunderbird (with the guide provided in the enigmail
>> website) and I've got a question. If I am using encryption and the
>> recipient of my email isn't, how is he supposed to decrypt the message?
> He isn't. Furthermore, you can't encrypt to him, because you don't have
> a public key from him. Without compatible software and key pairs
> generated on both sides and exchange of the public keys this simply
> cannot work.
>
> To be complete: In principle you can omit the key exchange and use
> OpenPGPs symmetrical encryption, but this isn't supported by Enigmail
> and still needs OpenPGP compatible software on both sides.
>
> HTH
>
> Ludwig
>


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