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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
- From: oml@eloka.demon.co.uk (Owen Lewis)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!eloka.demon.co.uk!oml
- Subject: Re: Fax with encryption?
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- References: <C0qAEB.FDK@panix.com>
- Organization: Eloka Consultancy & Project Management
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- Followup-To: Fax Encryption
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:59:20 +0000
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- In article <C0qAEB.FDK@panix.com> dannyb@panix.com writes:
-
- >BUT.... there are, in fact, various add-ons using PROPRIETARY encruyprtion
- >schemes which hook between the fax machine and the phone line (or, for
- >that matter, between a DATA modem and the phone line) which do additional
- >encryption transparently to the user.
- >
- Fax sacrifices logic to ease of use and thus is not easy to encrypt. Trying to develop a good system
- develop a good system that will work reliably has driven more than one company
- to the edge of bankruptcy.
- The better systems seem to work with the crypto module placed upstream of the
- fax machine's modem (only easy where there is an existing RS232 port that
- allows it).
- Outside of the US there are good (and not so good) manufacturers of fax crypto
- equipment in the UK, NL, S, GE and probably many other countries as well. I
- have never heard of a Japanese fax encryptor but it defies all the laws of
- probability to assume that theres mo such thing.
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