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Article #306Re: Mail security
From: David Brownell
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 19:15
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 19:15
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Christopher Stacey comments: > eDlhM Xq22L EaEGp GqvYT 6A0jB mgAXc Ab4Dp UZoGi snpcs ScgWA > JRKBk ZZB0u RJgYo gu7MD zGR45 JsTuQ dFvnE zPY#P eQuia drGc6 > ... > In the above message, David Brownell writes about how very hard it > would be to have encrypted mail, and I reply, "What's the big deal?" My point's been truncated here, to the point it's no longer related to what I said; I guess Christopher missed the original post. I never said more secure mail was "hard". I answered a question about why it hadn't caught on by pointing out that the while the technology is all but trivial, building social systems that can use it is quite hard. One critical problem is that few people benefit from it. I think the fact that Christopher has had to repeatedly translate his message, even when he included the decryption key with his mail, illustrates many of my issues rather nicely. Dave
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!limbo!taylor From: db@helium.East.Sun.COM (David Brownell) Newsgroups: comp.society Subject: Re: Mail security Message-ID: <1700@limbo.Intuitive.Com> Date: 31 Jan 91 19:15:02 GMT Sender: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com Organization: Sun Microsystems, Billerica MA Lines: 21 Approved: taylor@Limbo.Intuitive.Com