Re: email encryption, clear this up for me please

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LMAO its funny that none of you morons care to learn anything new. are you not curious how email encryption works in general? or how outlook handles it? because none of you know. why cant OUTLOOK view sent encrypted items in the preview pane? why do they need to first be opened? hhmmm.... MVP's huh? sure, as long as someone is asking how to open a freakin PST file! soon as you get an intelligent, real world question you all choke and get defensive. its comical




"Phillip Drummond" <na@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:evDtUS3jIHA.5080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
while that answer is ok for outlook, it doesnt work with windows mail or outlook express.
when you send an encrypted mail with either of those clients, you can NOT read the copy that is in your sent items folder. see? learn something new every day huh? so thats why im asking... why does it work in outlook.




"VanguardLH" <V@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eca3KE2jIHA.536@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"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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