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- From: Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (Scott Merrilees)
- Subject: Re: Elm Encryption
- Organization: BHP, Newcastle, Australia
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:19:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.011904.12626@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>
- References: <1992Dec1.115858.5595@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1giok8INN18s@nntp1.radiomail.net>
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- hogan@radiomail.net (Emmett Hogan) writes:
- >What would be really nice, would be all of the stuff from PGP somehow
- >rolled into elm. Of course, we wouldn't want to get involved in all the
- >legal hassles the author of PGP has brought upon himself. But it would be
- >nice to build into elm:
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- > - Public Key Encryption
- reasonable, thru some filter arrangement ?
- > - Public Key Distribution
- seperate issue, not related to elm, except in that elm may use information so
- distributed.
- > - Digital Signatures based upon Public/Secret Keys
- also reasonable, also seems like should be doable via a filter.
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- Sm
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- Scott Merrilees, BHP Information Technology, Newcastle, Australia
- Internet: Sm@bhpese.oz.au Phone: +61 49 40 2132 Fax: ... 2165
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