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From: celvin@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK (Chris Elvin)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Passing proprietary messages through competitors or other sites
Message-ID: <1990Jul23.062802.21270@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>
Date: 23 Jul 90 06:28:02 GMT
References: <11613@hoptoad.uucp> <716@logicon.com>
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK. GU2 5XH
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In article <716@logicon.com> Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey) writes:
>In article <11613@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>>On many sites it can be read by ordinary users while parked there in
>>transit.
>
>On many sites in-transit mail can be *modified* by ordinary users,
>too.  It's time to start encrypting mail, I guess.
>
>                           :: Jeff Makey

Encryption of mail won't stop users modifying it, just stop them making sense
of it.  How is the encryption key passed?

Make the mail spooling area unreadable by 'joe user' and this problem is
minimised. Better still, have a separate machine for hanging modems off.
I use a 3/280 for ALL external network traffic, mail routing etc. NO user
has access to this machine.

			C.

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Chris Elvin
C.Elvin@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK                    "Beware of low flying butterflies!"
Dept of Elec. Eng, University of Surrey,
Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5XH. England. PHONE: +44 483 509104  FAX: +44 483 34139