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Re:Stop Using Encrypted Email by jolmg on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:34PM (#22371302)
I can also send you the commands to copy-paste into your terminal to generate the key pair and ask you to give me the public key.
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Re:Stop Using Encrypted Email by asimpletune on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:37PM (#22371317)
That could def. be MITM’d though
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Re:Stop Using Encrypted Email by jolmg on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:41PM (#22371342)
That would have to be someone actively engaging in MitM and not merely listening and keeping record.

Even if that's the case though, you can raise the difficulty by doing it through a phone call.

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