Re: email encryption, clear this up for me please

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"Phillip Drummond" <na@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uDBy7M0jIHA.4908@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i send an encrypted email to someone, the message is encrypted using their public key. the message can only be DEcrypted by the users private key... so then why can i read the message in my sent items folder in outlook?



It gets encrypted when sent. You only have a copy. You do NOT have a copy of what actually got sent (i.e., what you delivered to your SMTP mail host). You only have a *local* copy of your e-mail. Obviously you can read whatever YOU sent. There would be no point in saving a local copy if you couldn't read it. Have you tried BCC'ing yourself on the encrypted e-mail and then yanking back a copy of what actually got sent and then trying to read it?

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