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From: dave%snowgoose@uunet.uu.net ( Dave Stoffel )
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: secure mail
Message-ID: <mail.99yqT1w163w@snowgoose>
Date: 6 Dec 90 07:42:19 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Snow Goose Software Works
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    I am interested in what can be done to secure mail from being read
"en route".  Has this topic been discussed before and is it of interest
to this group?

    I suppose a sufficiently compute intensive public key crypto method
would do the job.  If the requirements were less general, i.e., party A
and party B have exchanged keys outside of the mail channel, then

crypt < plain | uuencode  .......  | uudecode | crypt > plain


would work.

	Dave	uunet!snowgoose!dave	dave%snowgoose@uunet.uu.net


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