2022-06-30: Encrypted email and gpg hidden-encrypt-to rak ================================================================ If you are not careful when sending gpg-encrypted emails, you may encrypt the message only to the recipients and be unable to read them later. To prevent this, you can add the following option to your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf: hidden-encrypt-to your-gpg-key-id The effect is that gnupg always includes your gpg key id as a hidden recipient when encrypting, so that you can later decrypt files or messages. See --hidden-encrypt-to in gpg(1) for details.