Oh, I most definitely can send an encrypted message to anyone. The recipient will not be able to decrypt it since I don't have his public key so I'll have to use some random other key, but I can send him an encrypted message.
Anyway, these things confirm my point: the way the PGP signature is transfered is only relevant for signed but unencrypted mails as you may as well send these mails to people that do know know, understand or use PGP. And those people may get confused by the way that the signature is transfered: either inline or as an attachment. Embedding this in the header solves this issue. Of course, it will require further specification in an RFC and it will require more broad support than from just one client (although I personally don't know anyone that does use PGP and does not use Enigmail to do so but that's just my personal circle, of course). But it has to start somewhere, right? Regards, Egbert On 03/16/2014 08:22 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 03/16/14 08:21, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > > On 03/15/2014 02:28 PM, Egbert van der Wal wrote: > >> I actually see encryption as less of an issue. When I send an > >> encrypted message to someone, I need to know for sure that the > >> recipient knows about PGP encryption and knows how to decode it. > >> If I send an encrypted message to someone who does not use PGP, > >> he/she cannot read it, no matter what. > > > How do you send an encrypted message to someone who does not use > > PGP? You need his public key to do that. > > Exactly. How are you going to send an encrypted message to someone > who does not have a public key? You can't. Period. Unless you > separately arrange a symmetric encryption key to use or pre-arrange to > send a symmetric encryption key out-of-band. It's a non-issue from > the point of view of Enigmail. If you *can* send someone an encrypted > message, you have their public key. If they don't have one, you don't > have it either, and you can't. End of story. > > > > _______________________________________________ > enigmail-users mailing list > enigmail-users@enigmail.net > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
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