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From: randolph@cognito.Eng.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz)
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Subject: Re: The end of privacy... and so what comes next?
Summary: Clearinghouses . . .
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Date: 1 Apr 91 23:41:17 GMT
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Brad, your proposed system can be made more secure if your smartcard
is used to decrypt public-key encrypted messages.  In that way, even
the clearinghouse can't examine your transactions.

My guess is the security would (for most people) be comparable to the
level of security you could achieve in a major city now -- beyond
casual attacks, but breakable by a good dectective or intelligence
agency.  It would certainly cut down the harrassment use of electronic
addresses.

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