Email sent to website user include encryption messages

  • Resolved benyoung

    (@benyoung)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    Emails sent to the end user (not a WordPress user) of a website, after completing a form, include the “BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE”, “BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE” message and key codes.

    Screenshot:
    http://imgur.com/EffO1mU

    Can you help us to understand why? We can’t see any plugin preference or setting to prevent this from being the case. As we understand it, these messages should only appear on emails sent to the recipient of a completed online form (e.g. website adminstrator), as defined in WordPress, and also only to those WordPress users who have populated their user profile with a PGP Public key.

    Thanks

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pgp-encrypted-emails/

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  • Plugin Author Meitar

    (@meitar)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    No, this is a PGP signature. When you create a site signing key, every outgoing email is signed with the key so that the recipient of the email can verify that the message was sent from the website. This is a very strong anti-spoofing mechanism and is true for all outgoing emails, by design.

    In other words: after you make or add a site signing keypair in the plugin’s setting screen, all outgoing messages are automatically signed.

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