On 2014-10-01 12:07 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Somebody, correct me... It also provides some measure of assurance that tampering of the content has not occurred between time of sending and time of decryption, though just *signing* it with the private key (without also encrypting) should accomplish that as well. Still, just think if the NSA/et al had to spend all their 'bot-net time brute forcing millions of encrypted 'everyday' emails.