1996-07-27 - Securing 5% of the Internet against Wiretapping by Christmas

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From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
To: gnu@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-07-27 01:40:32 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 09:40:32 +0800

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From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 09:40:32 +0800
To: gnu@toad.com
Subject: Securing 5% of the Internet against Wiretapping by Christmas
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I've been working on a project in secret for a few months, and now am
talking about it with everyone so that we can all help it along.

Want all the Internet traffic between you and every other
privacy-conscious site on the net to automatically be encrypted using
Triple-DES, RSA, and Diffie-Hellman?  Without changing your hardware
or software, except to stick a Linux PC on your network, or install a
new version of Linux on your laptop?  Want it all by Christmas?  Then
check out

	http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/swan.html





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