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How dangerous it is to share public keys and share information which keys is used to encrypt file? #426

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There are no stupid questions, only incomplete docs :)

There is no risk in storing public keys with encrypted files, except the obvious ones: it will be possible to know what files were encrypted to what keys, and it will be possible to re-encrypt different files to those keys.

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