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1997-04-16 - Re: Introducing newbies to encryption (was: Re: anonymous credit)

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
To: enystrom@aurora.nscee.edu (Eric Nystrom)
Message Hash: 4f413b9134bdf551c02344d70cc56b23d7f886c6d9fe881aa74c328bea59f210
Message ID: <199704160242.VAA00733@manifold.algebra.com>
Reply To: <Pine.CVX.3.91.970415005525.8148B-100000@aurora.nscee.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1997-04-16 02:45:04 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:45:04 -0700 (PDT)

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:45:04 -0700 (PDT)
To: enystrom@aurora.nscee.edu (Eric Nystrom)
Subject: Re: Introducing newbies to encryption (was: Re: anonymous credit)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.CVX.3.91.970415005525.8148B-100000@aurora.nscee.edu>
Message-ID: <199704160242.VAA00733@manifold.algebra.com>
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Eric Nystrom wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 ichudov@algebra.com wrote:
> 
> > I would not call it truly "utopian". There is not much that's needed to
> > achieve reasonable personal security, protecting from attacks from the
> > Internet  -- an individual (pesonal) computer system that offers no
> > internet services. Could be bought for $300 or less.
> 
> That makes a lot of sense for data security in the general sense, but I'm 
> uncertain how useful that would be in terms of helping the user have more 
> secure email.  Is there an offline mail reader for standard Unix systems 
> that would run on a platform like you describe?  
> 

Yes, there is one.

	- Igor.

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