Encrypt & Sign
Werner Koch
wk at gnupg.org
Fri Jan 14 19:11:13 CET 2005
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:25:59 -0500, David Shaw said:
> signer. There is no particular reason why one is better than the
> other, but generally people like the identity protection aspect of
There is one reason: If you store texts in the clear you still can
keep the signature intact. If you encrypt and sign then this won't be
possible. To implement that you should - for practical reasons - not
use the combined method of gpg but the standard PGP/MIME method of
encrypting an PGP/MIME signed message.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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