From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 08:15:58 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: FWEE!: kiosks
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>The whistleblower creates his file in the privacy
>of his own home on a floppy disk, encrypts it in the public key of
>the whistleblowing system, and carries it to a public kiosk where he
>sends it.

This is the ideal scenario.  I suspect that kiosks for other purposes
will eventually contain some form of user-available I/O.  I'm guessing
it will be infrared, maybe rs232 serial.  Diskette drives are too
vulnerable and expensive to be feasible in a pay phone environment;
they're called armor phones, and for good reason.  In particular,
sfnet doesn't have diskette access.

No bother, we're not going to create the best system on the first
revision.  A good enough system will drive later systems.

Eric