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Encryption and recipients

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recipient_required

Recipient-only encrypted delivery needs the handle of the person who should receive the paste.

HTTP 400·Encryption and recipients

What it means

What happened

Recipient-only encrypted delivery needs the handle of the person who should receive the paste.

Why

Why it might have happened

  • The recipient field is empty.
  • The page may not have saved the selected recipient before publishing.
Next steps

What you can try

  1. Enter the recipient’s @handle.
  2. Wait for the key lookup to succeed.
  3. Publish again.
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