Re: bbdb, encryption

[Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net>]

Hello,

it has been a long time, I'm sorry for that.


David Maus wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I don't have many contacts that utilize GnuPG but for the ones I have
> I simply let SEMI decide about the key to use based on the recipient's
> mail address and make a deliberate decision whether to use encryption
> or not.
I think I found a problem with that. I try to send an encrypted mail
to 'foo <foo@a.b>' and the mail gets encrypted with the key belonging
to 'foo <bar@a.b>'. From above it looks like only the name is used for
key selection. That would be wrong of course. Hmm.


> Maintaining an association of contact and key id in the addressbook
> seems like unnecessary work to me because this association is already
> stored in the keyring (at least in my case).
I have the very minor use case that I have several keys with the same
uid and for them I want to choose which key to use.


> Auto-encrypting messages based on a flag in BBDD might look like a
> good idea on the first glance but in my experience it is not worth the
> trouble.
I'm not there yet, but I think I slowly come to the same conclusion ;).

Regards
hmw


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