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- From: hal@gateway.mitre.org (Hal Feinstein)
- Subject: does anyone really use encrypted e-mail??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.112803.9598@linus.mitre.org>
- Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service)
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- Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:28:03 GMT
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- Sometime in the early hours of last night I had this horrible thought. Does
- anyone really use these encrypted e-mail products that we've been
- developing besides us? I mean, we as interested information security
- people sometimes use it (why I don't know except perhaps as an experiment)
- but how many commercial outfits are using it I wonder? These are the
- people who supposedly needed it and yet my experience as a security
- analyst (based on what I see in the field) tell me that only a few more
- advanced type are going to go throught the trouble of setting it all up for
- commercial use. Now, maybe, in a brighter world when business is conducted
- through the paperless office, when we are all online and have pre-stored
- certificates in some X.500 directory, we then might see some usage.
- But until that happy hour, I'd not be overly surprised to find the number
- of organizations using encrypted e-mail to be small indeed.
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- BTW -- Can someone post the algorithm or some write-up on the IDEA algorithm
- that PGP 2.0 is using. I know its patented (another drag on commercial usage)
- but can't it be posted?
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