Re: e-mail security.

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On 12/1/18 2:14 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
4: Are you expecting an encrypted message from someone you've never heard of? I've never received one, and if I did I would expect it to be encrypted _to me_ i.e. GPG encrypted with _my_ public key. The key take here is that to retrieve it I don't have to go anywhere: I have the message in the email and I have my personal private key to hand. You can't "go to a web site" to fetch an encrypted message, because said site doesn't have any of _your_ private information.

That long string of characters will be the identification, possibly even the encryption key. It might be a somewhat looser definition of encrypted than we would like, but quite possibly valid.

I had a look at "whois encrypt.barracudanetworks.com". No record. barracuda.com at least has a whois record. This isn't very definitive.

You have to do the whois on the base domain, in this case "barracudanetworks.com". Doing that returns the same info as "barracuda.com". I believe that the site is valid, but I can't say anything about the contents of the message.
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