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From: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Passing proprietary messages through competitors or other sites
Message-ID: <1145@vision.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 90 12:25:24 GMT
References: <11613@hoptoad.uucp> <118@rwing.UUCP>
Reply-To: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies)
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
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In article <118@rwing.UUCP> nanook@rwing.UUCP (Robert Dinse) writes:
[discussing how to send company-confidential email]
>     The way I've handled this is to agree verbally on a password then crypt
>the message before sending it. Crypted data seems to make it through uucp ok
>and I've not seen too many systems that lack crypt. I'm sure it's not 100%
>secure, but it at least makes it difficult for ordinary users who weren't
>previously employeed by the NSA to look at it.

The program 'crypt' does not exist outside the US, thanks to the DoD.  Some
systems have the crypt(3) library call, but by no means all.  Thus Joe User
has the additional hassle of writing their own crypt/decrpyt program...

Crazy isn't it!

Chris
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