gpg - difference --encrypt-to and --recipient

[MFPA]

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Hi


On Thursday 3 January 2019 at 12:02:39 AM, in
<mid:20190103000240.08304C0157 at smtp.hushmail.com>, vedaal via
Gnupg-users wrote:-


> [2] encrypt only to the sender, but also encrypt the
> plaintext only
> to you, and store the encrypted file in your sent or
> other
> convenient folder, with the date and the recipient.

I guess if you had an MUA that encrypted separately to BCC recipients,
you could achieve this by BCC-ing yourself.



> [3] only for the overly paranoid who revel in tedious
> work-arounds  8^)     :

> (a)  Encrypt to both yourself and the recipient
> (b)  Remove your own id packet from the ciphertext,
> (c)  Re-calculate  the crc of the ciphertext
> (d)  Send the 'hacked' ciphertext along to the
> original recipient
> (e)  Store the first ciphertext from (a) along with
> the one from (d), in your sent folder
> (f)   now you will always be able to decrypt and
> retrieve the original plaintext

Would the ciphertext at (d) be much different than encrypting to the
recipient and hidden-encrypt-to your own key?


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