Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20191021160908.4_hgk%stef...@sdaoden.eu>: |Vincent Breitmoser wrote in <2UJQOP6NMJE80.2FS52GC36TCEU@my.amazin.horse>: ||> Especially if the key is shipped alongside the message already || ||Are you sure that it is though? Seems to me you're giving out ill-informed ||advice here. | |Bad advice of mine yes, PGP does not do it the way S/MIME does it. ... |But you could send a signed message with the public key attached |(as application/pgp-keys even?) to the person you want to |henceforth communicate encrypted and/or signed. You need some |kind of web of trust to make this fly, however. But it would |make it clear that you have the private counterpart.
Ok, that "clear" is only true if you then just send an encrypted messae right afterwards. But that should be it, or am i confused? I would say that is not an effort too much to gain safe communication when it is desired. And then there are other ways of fetching keys, as long as there are keyservers which one can use. Thanks for the sks pool is due at that time. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users