...mailto:garloff@suse.de<garloff@suse.de>¹

General, GnuPG and mutt part

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...mailto:aj@suse.de<aj@suse.de>²

Gnus part

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... force³

This is not entirely true. When the key is generated, you need good random numbers. If those are bad and predictable, your key might be found easily. Linux /dev/random however is OK.

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... help.⁴

There were also approaches where the MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) would be responsible for encryption, but as the user does not normally directly interact with the MTA, this concept was rather flawed and did not succeed.

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... editing.⁵

This option is provided by a SuSE patch, and has not (yet?) found its way into the official mutt.

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