IIRC it is possible to have some clever encryption so that the person you sent your message to can prove to their own satisfaction that it came from you, but they cannot prove to anyone else that it came from you. Which gives you plausible deniability; you can always claim that your contact forged the message.Can't remember what the algorithm is called.
upofadown|3 months ago
I don't know if it actually could work in practice:
https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:repudiability
gabrielhidasy|3 months ago
XorNot|3 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-record_messaging