Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!architec From: architec@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Phil Dench) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: SecretMail Message-ID: Date: 7 Mar 91 08:59:17 GMT References: <9103061407.AA17329@dolphin.omni.co> Sender: usenet@uniwa.uwa.oz (USENET News System) Organization: Curtin University of Technology, Computing Science Lines: 16 rpaul@dolphin.omni.co (Rodian Paul) writes: >We tend to send a fair amount of confidential stuff between these >sushi-shores and the real world, but it's a pain to have to crypt/uuencode >and uudecode/crypt time and time again. ... If you are really serious about your files secrecy, you shouldn't just be using 'crypt'. There are freely available tools around that allow anyone to get plain text within a few minutes if they can read your file and have some idea of its likely contents. As far as I know, compress before crypting gives a better level of protection (thats what I do anyway). Phil