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Test. Sorry.
This is a test. Apologies for wasted bandwidth.
AA01851; Thu, 8 Jul 93 11:40:10 EDT
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To: Rachel Beth Goldstein <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: text p.d. cryptosystems for email
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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1993 11:40:08 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Rachel Beth Goldstein says:
>
> this is probably a faq, but pardon me, since this is my first mail to
> the cypherpunks list. the problem is this: i once worked for a
> (nameless) finance company that had pseudo-wizard-dorkos for sa's, and
> a gravitationally-challenged boss that routinely read employees' (ie.
> *my*) personal email. i knew this because he asked me specific
> questions regading the email subjects. both he and the dorkos
> relished this ability and probably got some power trip from it.
This is likely a violation of federal law, but never mind that.
> however, friends told me that (1) crypt is easily compromised, and
> (2) not all unix sites have crypt available anyway. are there
> text-based alternates to crypt, such that i don't have to use
> uuencode or btoa to mail encrypted text?
What you want is PGP. Doubtless someone out there is likely to tell
you more about it...
Perry