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- From: vla@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Louis Verhagen)
- Subject: Re: Fax with encryption?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.000817.29316@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au
- Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
- References: <C0oMzE.LD6@newsserver.technet.sg>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:08:17 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- mathias@solomon.technet.sg (Mathias Koerber) writes:
-
- >Having bought a Fax-Modem recently (OAFax 9648), I started wondering whether
- >it wouldn't be possible to encrypt faxes. Not only in Software but also
- >in standard Fax machines. I guess for a good encryption scheme, one would
- >have to scan in the page into internal memory, then enter a bignum as key,
- >all lines get encrypted on the fly while sending, and the receiving station
- >stores the encrypted pages in memory. Then a special function asks for the
- >bignum, decrypts and prints.
-
- If you send the bignum with the fax then a person "bugging" you
- will also get this. Al he needs then is the same type of fax
- machine you have and Voila.
-
- Greetings
- Louis
-
-