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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Unix Security Mail
Message-ID: <1991Jan04.212818.23606@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 4 Jan 91 21:28:18 GMT
References: <1991Jan4.143423.9494@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington Ultrix Resource Center
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hamid@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov writes:

>	How secure is mail on a Unix account?

	Encrypt your mail using your favorite encryption algorythm, uuencode
the results, and mail that to your friend, after exchanging passwords through
some other medium. If your mail goes over an ethernet, internet, or you can't
trust your systems administrators or other users on your machine, it's best
to not say anything you want secret unless it's enciphered.

mjr.
-- 
	If the designers of X-window built cars, there would be no fewer
than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which follow
the same prinicples - but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo.
Useful feature, that.     [From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990]