Re: Introducing newbies to encryption (was: Re: anonymous credit)

[ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)]

Eric Nystrom wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 ichudov@algebra.com wrote:
> 
> > I would not call it truly "utopian". There is not much that's needed to
> > achieve reasonable personal security, protecting from attacks from the
> > Internet  -- an individual (pesonal) computer system that offers no
> > internet services. Could be bought for $300 or less.
> 
> That makes a lot of sense for data security in the general sense, but I'm 
> uncertain how useful that would be in terms of helping the user have more 
> secure email.  Is there an offline mail reader for standard Unix systems 
> that would run on a platform like you describe?  
> 

Yes, there is one.

	- Igor.