GPG and BCC

[MFPA]

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Hi


On Thursday 17 April 2014 at 7:14:21 PM, in
<mid:1527946.suRYxdqfv7 at thufir.ingo-kloecker.de>, Ingo Klöcker wrote:



> Sure. One could do this. But I don't see the point of
> encrypting an  individual copy for each To/Cc
> recipient. The only additional  information a single
> message encrypted for all To/Cc recipients gives  the
> recipients is the list of key IDs of the other
> recipients. Under  very special circumstances this
> could be undesirable,

And could be avoided with --throw-keyids.



> but under those  special
> circumstances one probably also doesn't want to have
> all  recipients listed in To/Cc. So, we are back to
> using Bcc

My opinion is that it is usually a good idea to
err on the side of caution and use BCC, but in certain specific
circumstances it is acceptable to use multiple entries in To or CC.



>  or sending completely indiviual messages.

Tha mailer to which I was referring actually did send completely
individual messages, when you told it to encrypt a message that had
multiple recipients.


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