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echo: public_keys
to: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
from: AUGUST ABOLINS
date: 2020-01-09 18:55:00
subject: not encrypted, but still

Hello Wilfred!

** 09.01.20 - 22:08, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

 WvV>Below is my reply to your message. It's *not encrypted* only signed
 WvV>(but not clearsigned). Anyone with gpg can decode it and view it's
 WvV>contents

[snip]

 WvV>-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
 WvV>Version: GnuPG v2

 WvV>owGbwMvMwMRovbl2hdf0ydqMaxlNk7jS83NSUlP0covT48Qnf/DIVHAsTS8tLtHh
 WvV>4vLPUzAyMDLQNTDUNbBUMDKyMja3MjDVUajML1UoL8ovSVUoyVfITbXi4lKws1Nw


An "only signed" message produces what still looks encrypted.

Maybe we are being too loose with the terminology.

Maybe we should say, just signing a message *encodes* it.


  ../|ug

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* Origin: Key ID = 0x5789589B (2:221/1.58)

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