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 Message 415 
 Wilfred van Velzen to August Abolins 
 Re: adele test anyone? 
 06 Jan 20 18:21:35 
 
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Hi August,

On 2020-01-06 05:12:08, you wrote to All:

 AA> Has anyone here tried their encrypted messages with Adele?

Never heard about it.

 AA> I sent an encrypted email, attached my public key, and I get this:

 AA> --citation begins--
 AA> Unfortunately I could not encrypt my reply to you. A possible reason
 AA> is that the key you sent me might be a signing-only key (set so during
 AA> key generation). You can sign with such a key but one cannot encrypt
 AA> messages with it.

 AA> Since your message to me was encrypted, it may have contained
 AA> sensitive
 AA> data. Therefore I won't quote it in my unencrypted answer. If you send
 AA> me a key that I can encrypt to, I will quote your reply in an
 AA> encrypted message.
 AA> --citation ends--


 AA> I don't recall having an option to restrict my key as a "signing-only"
 AA> key.  The key manager shows no apparent distinction about that.

Never heard about such keys...

 AA> For info about Adele, see: https://tinyurl.com/ww2tjfd

 AA>   ..and scroll down to,

 AA>  "Practice with Adele, the friendly OpenPGP email robot"

Interesting!

Bye, Wilfred.

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