Ben Sturmfels

GPG email and the subject

Ben Sturmfels at

I wouldn't make much of a secret agent. I go to all the effort of encrypting an email and after sending remember that the subject is unencrypted and basically sums up what the email is about. Not all my fault I suppose - it's a bit of a usability problem.

Not if you apply some disinformation in the subject line. Or make it generic. Or randomly generate it. Or...

Jason Self at 2017-06-29T13:18:42Z

Yes, I should probably write some Emacs Lisp to automatically do this for me when I'm encrypting a message. I wonder if newer Enigmail does anything like this? Mine is fairly old now.

Ben Sturmfels at 2017-06-29T13:20:27Z