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From: mark@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: Public Key Crypto-Systems
Message-ID: <4201@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Dec-83 11:40:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  3 11:40:19 1983
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Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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Berkeley Unix already has a public key encryption system used
to send secret mail.  It is called xsend and xget, and has been
around for several years at least.  (I don't know if
it originated at Bell or not--all I know it is here on our vax.)

Secret mail to each person is encrypted with their public key and
kept in a spool directory, but then can of course only be read
by that person themselves, who is the only holder of the private key.
-- 
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