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- From: mathias@solomon.technet.sg (Mathias Koerber)
- Subject: Re: Fax with encryption?
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- References: <1993Jan12.073028.5131W@lumina.edb.tih.no>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:48:07 GMT
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- Ketil Albertsen,TIH (ketil@edb.tih.no) wrote:
- : In article <C0pvqF.KBF@newsserver.technet.sg>, mathias@solomon.technet.sg
- : (Mathias Koerber) writes:
-
- : >The whole scheme is just intended to make it difficult for unauthorised
- : >people to read confidential incoming faxes.
-
- : My experience is that unauthorized reading of faxes occur when faxes
- : *that are already printed out* are laying all around the fax machine.
-
- Yup, that's why a fax machine should have enough memory to store incoming
- faxes until they are asked for. A diskette or small HD should be enough.
-
- : Most fax traffic that needs to be protected is business information.
- : Most businesses have non-individual fax machines. So the secretary, or
- : whoever handles the fax machine, must know (or agree with the sender)
- : the decrypt key.
-
- Same here, either you trust your secretary to decrypt the fax and then not
- let it lie around, or you keep in the machine until you arrive and start
- the printout.
-
-
- : In principle, the secretary may whenever an encrypted fax comes in page
- : whoever is expecting a fax (secretary wouldn't know who!) to immediately
- : leave whatever work he is doing run as quickly to the fax to enter the
- : right number... No, that wouldn't work in practice.
-
- No, no, no. Decryption only takes place on printout, not when receiving
-
-
- : Same problem with public key encryption: The fax would be printed out,
- : and would be visible to anyone in the office.
-
- : For private traffic and one-man-businesses, there aren't that many
- : people to read the confidential information. And writing Happy Birthday
- : to Grandma (assuming a modern Grandma who owns a fax machine...) is
- : nothing to bother with encryption.
-
- : K.A.
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