Re: Whats the encryptie

Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer wrote:

You don't have to chose a private key because GnuPG does it for you
automatically, by finding one that matches the name or address you're
sending to. And you don't have to enter a password because you never
have to enter a password when encrypting messages to someone else. They
enter theirs to DEcrypt. ;)

Okay I read more about gnupg and you are right :) But what now really
con fused me was that if I send a message via cmdl:

mixmaster -t recipient@xxxxxxxxx -m /tmp/msg.tmp -s 'encryptiontest'
--encrypt

I'm getting asked for a passphrase???? In the ncurses interface it
doesn't want one but in the cmdline? Why is that?

I *think* that what's happening is when you're sending from the command
line you're passing a file with no To: header in it, or possibly the -t
switch is overriding it as far as Mixmaster is concerned so the "full
message" isn't being handed to GnuPG with a To: header in it that matches
anything on your key ring. GnuPG is "email aware" in other words, so it
behaves differently if it doesn't believe messages are formatted properly.


And what's up with signing? First I can just choose signing if I also
use --encrypt. But also than the message are never signed..It seems like
--sign wouldn't work here?

Check your GnuPG config file to make sure you have a default key set.

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