Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!ge-dab!codas!usfvax2!pollock
From: pollock@usfvax2.EDU (Wayne Pollock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Stuffit
Message-ID: <989@usfvax2.EDU>
Date: 20 Apr 88 18:48:39 GMT
References: <1047@aucs.UUCP>
Reply-To: pollock@usfvax2.usf.edu.UUCP (Wayne Pollock)
Distribution: na
Organization: University of South Florida at Tampa
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Keywords: virus encription
Summary: request for new version

Speaking of StuffIt, the time seems right for a new version which includes
a public key encription scheme and a utility to generate keys.  I could then
generate a pair of keys, use StuffIt to compress, encript; then binhex it
and upload it, listing the decoding key in the message header.

With this method, anyone can decript what I upload, but no one can modify
my posting and upload it again. (because they can't reencript the message.)
This is what is sometimes known as a digital signature.  This would provide
some relief against nasty people who like to put viruses in uploaded
programs.  (Not perfect protection, but still pretty good, don't you think?)

Wayne Pollock (The MAD Scientist)	pollock@usfvax2.usf.edu
Usenet:		...!{ihnp4, cbatt}!codas!usfvax2!pollock
GEnie:		W.POLLOCK

PS while you're at it, how 'bout saving sudirectory info when I save a
   folder?