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Re: Encrypt subject

2005-08-31 06:11:55

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Hi Werner !

However, as has cropped up several times on the enigmail mailinglist, it
would be really nice to be able to hide the Subject: header of an email
inside the encrypted mail body.


Simply send your mail as an encrypted message/rfc2822 MIME message and
put an innocent subject into the header.

Whether it is useful to decrypt all mails to see just the subject is a
different question, though.  I use memonic subjects without any
relation to the actual content; this helps to mentally sort such
messages.

Isn't that an ugly workaround ?

I know the Subject: is a header and is not part of the message body, but
I am sure most people use PGP as transport security, once the email is
here on my laptop it can be permanently decrypted.

It cant be that hard to put the subject into the body before encryption,
and get it out again after decryption can it ?

Or are there any conceptual issues I am missing ?

Cheers,
Karl
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