Hi On Thursday 3 September 2009 at 4:03:02 PM, in <mid:56009531.20090903220...@thomas-bkk.my-fqdn.de>, Thomas Fernandez wrote:
> I don't use PGP at the moment, but isn't it one of the > points? I mean, you have to exchange public keys (or > download them from the keyservers) in order to be able > to decrypt and check the signature. Sorry, I worded that badly. The behaviour I am questioning seems peculiar to The Bat!. It is usually possible with PGP (or GPG) to decrypt a message that is encrypted to your key, whether or not it happens to also be signed and whether or not you have a key to check the signature. TB! will not do this. You need your secret key to sign a message. Anybody needs your public key to check a signature that you made with your secret key. You need somebody's public key to encrypt to them. You need your secret key to decrypt a message that somebody has encrypted to your public key. You do not need their key to decrypt the message. -- Best regards MFPA Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.10.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
