Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!midway!gargoyle!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: encryption and elm
Keywords: encryption elm
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.185428.29883@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 Nov 90 18:54:28 GMT
References: <4516@cocoa7.UUCP> <1990Nov28.024805.16530@wubios.wustl.edu>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <1990Nov28.024805.16530@wubios.wustl.edu> phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) writes:

>>When I try to save a message which has been [encoded], the resulting
>>file is not decoded.
>>I believe elm should ask for the decryption key and then save 
>>the file!

>I strongly disagree with this.  I do not want a plain text version of my
>message stored in my folder directory - if I want it encrypted, then I want
>all copies of it encrypted, not just during transmission.

My opinion is that the text belongs to you and you should be able to
do anything you want with it.  One of the common things to do with
mail messages is to save them in non-folder files or pipe through
other programs.  An easy way to allow either choice would be to ask
for the key and decrypt (only) if you give it.

>Would Mike also suggest that the sender's copy also exist as plain text in
>their outgoing folder?

Again, it should be his choice what he does with it.  As long as it is
clear to the user what is going to happen, I have no problem with the
software offering to leave the text in a usable form.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us