[Enigmail] Enigmail, PGP, Gmail and decryption

[Robert Ryan]

On 8/21/2008 10:30 AM, Giano wrote:
> I'm X and I want to send an encrypted message to Y, so:
> 1) I pick up Y's public key.
> 2) I make this one-time-key, with which I encrypt the message (symmetric
> encryption).
> 3) I encrypt the one-time-key with Y's public key and append it to the
> message to be sent (asymmetric).
> 4) I encrypt the one-time-key with my public key and append it to the
> message to be sent (asymmetric).

Exactly right! :-)
-- 
Robert Ryan

I prefer encrypted, signed email :)
My PGP keys: http://tinyurl.com/5snkgq

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