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1997-04-15 - Re: Introducing newbies to encryption (was: Re: anonymous credit)

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From: Eric Nystrom <enystrom@aurora.nscee.edu>
To: ichudov@algebra.com
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Message ID: <Pine.CVX.3.91.970415005525.8148B-100000@aurora.nscee.edu>
Reply To: <199704150718.CAA23959@manifold.algebra.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-04-15 08:11:12 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 01:11:12 -0700 (PDT)

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From: Eric Nystrom <enystrom@aurora.nscee.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 01:11:12 -0700 (PDT)
To: ichudov@algebra.com
Subject: Re: Introducing newbies to encryption (was: Re: anonymous credit)
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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?  

-Eric

--
Thus the time may have come to abandon the cool, measured language of
technical reports -- all that talk of "perturbations" and "surprises" and
"unanticipated events" -- and simply blurt out: "Holy shit!  Ten thousand
years!  That's incredible!"
			-- Kai Erikson, _A_New_Species_of_Trouble_, 1994.

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