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From: gulik@motcid.UUCP (Gregory Gulik)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: encryption and elm
Keywords: encryption elm
Message-ID: <5533@melon11.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 90 22:28:14 GMT
References: <4516@cocoa7.UUCP> <1990Nov28.024805.16530@wubios.wustl.edu>
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In article <1990Nov28.024805.16530@wubios.wustl.edu> phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) writes:
>
>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.
>
>
>Would Mike also suggest that the sender's copy also exist as plain text in
>their outgoing folder?


There are many times I would want a feature like that.

For example, if you are using UUCP, there are times when your mail
will make several hops to get where it's going.  Many times I would
like to send a personal message to someone on a secure system, so
I would like to encrypt the message on the way there to keep system
administrators from reading it, but the person at the other end would
be able to save it in plain text.

If this feature is to be implemented, it should be similar to the
way the Include Copy feature is done.  There should be options
in the elmrc for the default action, and a true/false option to
specify if the user is to be prompted.

Since I am the system administrator of my own system at home, I wouldn't
need to keep mail encrypted there, so I would automatically save my
mail decrypted.

I already love elm, and this type of feature would make me love
it even more!!!!

-greg

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