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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor)
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Subject: reading of other people's mail
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Date: Thu, 26-Jun-86 12:32:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 26 12:32:00 1986
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[a copy of a message posted in net.mail...'notes' can't cross-post, damn it!]

In this group [and net.mail] Mark Horton writes;

>At the time, I was hoping people would write some enhancements to
>popular EMail user interfaces (e.g. Mail/mailx, MH, etc) that would
>support this [encrypted mail].  So far I haven't seen any....

>If somebody out there would implement this, perhaps we could render
>this whole subject moot.

Users of the Msg and/or Elm mailer will find that this feature already IS
implemented: the following message text will transmit an encrypted message;

--------
this is a sample message

[encode]

This is the encrypted part

[clear]

this is back to normal.
-------

Upon transmission of the message the program will prompt for a key to
encrypt with (twice) and then mail the crypted message.  The person at
the receiving end will then automatically be prompted for a key when
reading the message (e.g. "This is an encrypted message...please enter 
the decryption key") and will then have it displayed decrypted.  At no
time will the message be stored anywhere in an unencrypted form...

		Just another feature, right?	:-)

					-- Dave Taylor  (taylor@hplabs.HP.COM)

ps: For reasons of portability to non-US sites, I choose to use a public
    domain 13-key rotor encryption algorithm that I got from someone (Tw?).
    This means that if the person at the other end is cruisin' along reading
    your message in a mailer OTHER than Msg/Elm, you're outta luck.  Perhaps
    if this becomes a sufficiently popular function this will change...