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- From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Subject: Re: Fax with encryption?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.195241.28176@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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- References: <1993Jan11.195959.19591@cc.ic.ac.uk> <C0pvqF.KBF@newsserver.technet.sg> <1993Jan12.073028.5131W@lumina.edb.tih.no>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 19:52:41 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.073028.5131W@lumina.edb.tih.no>, ketil@edb.tih.no (Ketil Albertsen,TIH) writes:
- -
- - 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.
-
- Oh no, only encrypting the sensitive items means the evil enemy knows
- straightaway what is sensitive and can concentrate on decrypting it.
- If you want security by encryption it is particularly important to encrypt
- happy birthday faxes to Grandma, so that the EE wastes computer time
- decrypting them.
-
- N.B. In connection with the Robert Maxwell Pension Fund Deficits it became
- known that some security agencies in the UK had intercepted faxes for him,
- so it is technically feasible to print a fax from a telephone tap, and the
- eavesdropping issue is not totally outlandish.
-
- Thomas
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