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Marshall Clow (mclow@owl.csusm.edu)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:31:15 -0700
At 10:54 AM -0700 8/19/98, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Michael Paul Johnson writes:
>> I LIKE this idea a lot, especially if the crypto-enabled sendmail can be
>> made common enough.
>
>This has already been done at least once before if I remember correctly.
>
>I'm not really a big fan of the idea, truth be told. It makes you
>trust all the intermediate nodes on the network for security. It does,
>however, make the espionage community's life harder, so I suppose that
>is a plus.
>
The reason to do it is to discourage promiscous hoovering of data
as it flies by on the wire.
Of course, if it's sheer volume of encrypted transmissions that we're
after, we should add this capability to NNTP. :-)
-- Marshall
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taking care of them." --Thomas Jefferson
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:59