• adele test anyone?

    From August Abolins@2:221/360 to All on Mon Jan 6 05:12:08 2020
    Has anyone here tried their encrypted messages with Adele?

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

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

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


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

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

    ..and scroll down to,

    "Practice with Adele, the friendly OpenPGP email robot"


    ../|ug

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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 6 18:21:35 2020
    Hi August,

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

    Has anyone here tried their encrypted messages with Adele?

    Never heard about it.

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

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

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


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

    Never heard about such keys...

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

    ..and scroll down to,

    "Practice with Adele, the friendly OpenPGP email robot"

    Interesting!

    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From Tommi Koivula@2:221/360 to Wilfred van Velzen on Tue Jan 7 00:38:24 2020
    On 6.1.2020 19:21, Wilfred van Velzen : August Abolins :

     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...

    I got that answer too... Then I checked my keys with Openkeychain app in
    my Android phone, and it says they all are valid for everything...

    Bye Bye Adele. :)

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/360 to Tommi Koivula on Tue Jan 7 01:45:19 2020
    On 1/6/2020 5:38 PM, between "Tommi Koivula : Wilfred van Velzen":

    a "signing-only" key..

    Never heard about such keys...

    I got that answer too... Then I checked my keys with
    Openkeychain app in my Android phone, and it says they all
    are valid for everything...

    Bye Bye Adele. :)


    Adele = garbage. She's feeding a false impression on PGP security in
    general!

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