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Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:54:22 -0400
Michael Paul Johnson writes:
> I LIKE this idea a lot, especially if the crypto-enabled sendmail can be
> made common enough.
This has already been done at least once before if I remember correctly.
I'm not really a big fan of the idea, truth be told. It makes you
trust all the intermediate nodes on the network for security. It does,
however, make the espionage community's life harder, so I suppose that
is a plus.
>
> At 03:18 PM 8/19/98 +0200, Trei, Peter wrote:
> > I'd like to second Perry's suggestion of
> >building a crypto-enabled version of sendmail.
> >
> >Such a sendmail would use a DH exchange to set
> >up a link with perfect forward secrecy. The
> >end users need not do *anything*: he or she
> >does not even need to know that encryption
> >is being used - the sendmail would detect
> >whether it's partner was also crypto enabled,
> >and act appropriately.
> ...
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