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Re: epg choosing wrong encryption keys



> It's been reported to me multiple times that epg chooses the wrong
> keys to encrypt to.  Initially, I thought that it would choose the
> wrong key when I didn't have a key with the corresponding email
> address locally.  (In this case, mailcrypt would complain.)  But, I
> just sent an email to someone whose key I have on my keyring (Werner
> Koch <wk@gnupg.org>) and it instead choose "Sam "Eddie" Couter
> <eddie@debian.org>" (which, of course, is also on my keyring).

> The only other pattern that I've recognized is that this has happened
> when I sent the mail to multiple people.  I typically use a to: line
> for each recipient.  I don't know if this is the problem.

SEMI-EPG checks only the first To: header for encryption at present.
But I don't know whether it caueses a wrong key choice.  As far as I
tested, a wrong key choice did not occur.

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Kazuhiro Ito