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From: robert@jimi.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.motss,news.misc
Subject: Re: News and Motss
Message-ID: <519@jimi.cs.unlv.edu>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 01:56:31 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 11 01:56:31 1987
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>In article <2990@ihlpg.ATT.COM> ejbjr@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Branagan) writes:
>There was a bill introduced last year to make reading of private
>mail illegal.  I don't know if it passed, but it should have.
>Companies have no more moral right to read private mail than they
>do to bug telephones.

Has anyone done anything about implimenting encryption as put forth in the
paper "A Method for Obtaining Digital  Signatures and Public-Key Crypto-
Systems" by RS&A?  Seems as though this would not only make legislation
unnecessary, but would also solve the problem of stuff getting bounced to
sysadmins.  Isn't there a header in RFC822 for this purpose?  Of course
one can always encrypt things by hand, but this is a nuisance, it would be
nice if the mail agent did this automatically, and if a public-key system
were available.

As to people inadvertantly posting propriatary code to the net, a good
dose of education would do a lot more good than reading private email,

					--robert

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