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PGP/S-MIME encrypted body + weak sender auth (envelope phishing)

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What this tier means

High-confidence threat indicator — phishing, impersonation, BEC, or scam pattern. Strong contributor to the trash decision.

How Gorganizer detects this

Email body is fully encrypted via PGP (-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- block) or S/MIME (Content-Type: application/pkcs7-mime; smime-type=enveloped-data) AND the sender authentication is weak (no dkim=pass, no spf=pass) AND the sender domain is not in the trusted brand allowlist. Attackers route phishing payloads through encrypted envelopes specifically because the engine cannot read the ciphertext to score body-level signals. Legitimate enterprise PGP/S-MIME senders DKIM-sign their envelope wrappers, so the auth-pass gate suppresses the signal for genuine encryption use-cases. PGP signed-only and S/MIME signed-data variants do not fire (the body remains readable).

False-positive guard

Every signal in Gorganizer feeds a multi-module score — never a sole verdict. This is a threat-tier signal — it adds a strong contribution to the trash score. The full pipeline still requires convergence across multiple modules + a margin over the safety floor before deletion happens, and Gmail's trash (30-day recovery) is always used — never permanent delete.

About the scoring engine

Gorganizer's scoring engine emits over 1,800 signals across six modules — headers, sender, subject, body, attachments, and structural metadata. Every email is scored by every module independently; the final verdict requires multiple modules to agree and the trash score to beat the safety floor by a margin.

Sacred safety guards — never delete starred emails, replies, calendar invites, receipts/invoices, or attachments — apply unconditionally regardless of any signal.

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