easy email encryption

[Werner Koch]

On 20 Oct 2002 22:47:21 -0500, Jacob Perkins said:

> following: given an email (address + message), retrieves a pgp/gpg key
> locally or from a key server (local network or public), then encrypts

This can't work because a public keysever may carry several keys
for the same email address.  You need another criteria to decide which
key to use; probablky the best thing is to require a key signature
from a well-known key.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner