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Article #3902Re: UNIX Mail with PubKey Encryption
From: Rothstein
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:19
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:19
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> Of course, the real way to do solid encription is the following. > First, make up some gizmo to generate a random binary string, (White noise, > maby. Hmm, I wonder how random blowing into the mike is?) You CAN"T use > the random number function, it must be TREULY random. THen, make a single > copy and give it to your friend through a secure channel. You then use the > Voyench (sp) algorythem for one time encription. Very useful, completely > uncrackable. See Scientific American Oct 92 for a sidebar on the subject. > Possibly make a service to take a key and file and encrypt, and another to > decrypt. Voila, now you can REALLY give the NSA fits. > -- > Nicholas C. Weaver > nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu > It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, .signifying nothing. > Tis better to dream with eyes wide open. It is at times like these that the hacker in me wants to break into NSA files, use FEE on everything. Then tell them that if they want to read it they are going to have to buy the software. (i.e. let you publish it) -- -Mont NeXTmail OK :-) President CP-NUG (Cal Poly NeXT User Group) mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!olivea!charnel!rat!zeus! From: mrothste@keiko.acs.calpoly.edu (Rothstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: UNIX Mail with PubKey Encryption Message-ID: <1992Nov19.011926.153740@zeus.calpoly.edu> Date: 19 Nov 92 01:19:26 GMT References: <1e64k7INNsqv@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Reply-To: mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo Lines: 33