Am 10.11.2010 14:34, schrieb Matej Kurpel: > Now, when I send an encrypted e-mail from my primary account to my > secondary account and then try to read it (when it arrives), Thunderbird > is able to decrypt it for me. I don't understand why, shouldn't that > fail? I didn't give it the private key for the secondary account anywhere.
The mails are usually encrypted with a symmetric session key, which is wrapped with the sender's and receiver(s) public key(s). Why the sender key? Because the message might be stored in "Sent Mail", and the sender wants to be able to read that message later, too. Matthias -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
