On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:13:53 +1200, Peter Gutmann said:
It's somewhat confusing GPG terminology.
I agree that --hidden-recipient is a better name; however 7 years ago
someone asked for an option of this name to be able to send anonymous
messages to public newsgroups without prior negotiation of a one time
key.
It's not just misleading, it's an absolute bastard to support for
implementors. So I think it should be deprecated not only because it serves
Decryption are 38 lines including verbose error checking and status
reporting.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner