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 Message 822 
 August Abolins to Wilfred van Velzen 
 OpenPGP Forwarding 
 25 Sep 23 18:24:00 
 
MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 0cc14019
REPLY: 2:280/464 65119514
PID: OpenXP/5.0.57 (Win32)
CHRS: ASCII 1
TZUTC: -0400
Hello Wilfred!

 AA>> "Abstract

 AA>>    An OpenPGP user may want to request their email provider to
 AA>>    automatically forward some or all of the messages they receive to a
 AA>>    third party.  Given that messages are encrypted, this requires
 AA>>    transforming them into ciphertexts decryptable by the intended
 AA>>    forwarded parties, while maintaining confidentiality and
 AA>>    authentication."

 WvV> Yeah, don't really understand why you would want or need this...

I concur.  What's wrong with sending encrypted email to a  
direct destination. I don't understand the need for a "trusted  
3rd party".

Perhaps this is a ruse by some three-letter agencies to gain  
the opportunity to read encrypted traffic.


 AA>> Have you tried forwarding an encrypted message elsewhere and
 AA>> decrypt it from there?  Doesn't work for me.

 WvV> There shouldn't be a problem as long as the pgp payload isn't changed...

I've tried forwarding encrypting messages that have arrived to  
one of my addresses to another one that I can access later for  
convenience.  The latter had trouble processing the blocks.
-- 
  ../|ug

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