Encrypting Data with Guard

The Autocrypt standard has been developed to provide an automatic email encryption. This is done as follows:

• Each email sent includes the public key of the sender in the email header. This key will be imported automatically or manually by the recipient.

• PGP is used as encryption method.

Autocrypt has the following limitations:

• There is no check for automatically imported keys to see whether they are correct or a fake.

• For this reason, an automatically imported key is not used for verifying the sender's signature.

To manage Autocrypt keys and verify them later, you have the following options:

• Importing Autocrypt keys

• Managing Autocrypt keys

• Transferring Autocrypt keys to other clients

Parent topic: Encrypting Data with Guard