From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 16:27:09 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: NSA net trolling
In-Reply-To: <199602210313.WAA12167@thor.cs.umass.edu>
Message-ID: <199602210322.TAA25746@slack.lne.com>
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Here's a copy of your message back to you as you requested:

lmccarth@cs.umass.edu writes:
> 
> Wayne Madsen wrote somewhere:
> > A knowledgeable government source claims that
> > the NSA has concluded agreements with [...] Netscape to
> > permit the introduction of the means to prevent the anonymity of
> > Internet electronic mail, [...]
> 
> I suspect this may actually mean that they're pushing Netscape to
> incorporate cryptographic authentication into browser email, which I think is
> a useful development. (Hey, I read that Netscape employees get fined $1 for 
> referring to Navigator as a "browser".)
> 
> At any rate, it's an excuse for me to ask some questions:
> 
> (0)
> I'm not aware of any class library objects or methods in stand-alone Java
> for calling the local mail transport agent. Is there any class library 
> support in Java+{Navigator, HotJava, Mosaic, NetCruiser, the AOL web tool, 
> etc.} for calls to the local mail agent configured in the browser ?  
> 
> I would prefer not to reinvent SMTP using the Socket class in my own applets.
> Ideally I'd like to have an applet that presents a form with some entry boxes
> and check boxes, quantizes and encrypts the input according to the check box
> settings, and spews the resulting byte streams to the MTA. 
> 
> (1)
> As I recall, I used to be able to set (as an Option) the path and name of the
> local MTA (e.g. /usr/lib/sendmail) in an earlier version of Netscape. That
> seems to have disappeared in Navigator 2.0. Is there indeed no longer a way
> to set that ?  
> 
> It occurs to me that we could have achieved partial integration of
> remailing into Navigator quite cheaply with that option.
> 
> Comments from Sun and/or Netscape and/or anyone else would be welcome.
> Thanks :)
> 
> -Lewis	"You're always disappointed, nothing seems to keep you high -- drive 
> 	your bargains, push your papers, win your medals, fuck your strangers;
> 	don't it leave you on the empty side ?"  (Joni Mitchell, 1972)
> 
> 


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