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Peter Gutmann (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz)
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:45:01 (NZST)
>I'd like to second Perry's suggestion of building a crypto-enabled version of
>sendmail.
>
>Such a sendmail would use a DH exchange to set up a link with perfect forward
>secrecy. The end users need not do *anything*: he or she does not even need to
>know that encryption is being used - the sendmail would detect whether it's
>partner was also crypto enabled, and act appropriately.
It's already been done, Greg Rose presented it at a WIP session at the last
Usenix security symposium. Since it's available from Australia it's also
outside the iron curtain: http://www.home.aone.net.au/qualcomm.
Peter.
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