Re: recipient does not have pgp key? can i still send an encrypted email?

[Adam Sjøgren]

vani writes:

> it seems we need recipient pgp key for sending
> encrypted email. if there is no pgp key, can i
> still encrypted email?

No, not with public-key cryptography¹, which is what is usually used.
You need the recipients public key to be able to encrypt the email to
them.

If you and the recipient share a secret (eg. a password), you could use
symmetric encryption², but you have to share the secret in some other
way first, so it's rarely a solution.


  Best regards,

    Adam


¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric-key_algorithm

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