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Re: Mail security

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From: David Brownell
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 19:15
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Christopher Stacey comments:

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> 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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Subject: Re: Mail security
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Date: 31 Jan 91 19:15:02 GMT
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