Ian G wrote: >Michael Ströder wrote: >> If the private key is no longer available, yes, encrypted data >> technically cannot be decrypted anymore.
>Note the decision here to store the email in private-key encrypted form, >instead of (for example) cleartext or re-encrypting it with the master >password. Yes, this is one of the weird things with S/MIME. You really wanted to encrypt the message during *transport* but as a "bonus" got it encrypted for *storage* as well. That's what I mean with "fundamentally broken architecture". Anders _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
