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Originally Posted by DIYPatriot
Each person has an email address that has been bound to a certificate provided by a trusted third party. Each certificate contains a public key. The assumption, at this point, is that each person has access to a private key on their computer (used later to decrypt the encrypted message they receive).
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My question may not make since, but I will ask as I am a nug.
1.Who is the Third party who holds your certificate? And from my understanding, unless you are the terminal (third party storage), then you have the ability for compromise.
2. How/what type of encryption is placed in the message, and how would the other individual know that this is the key?
3. Is the email decryption taking place in a persistent/non-persistent area of your os thumbdrive/partition drive?
Just trying to get it straight in my head.