From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:54:19 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com
Subject: Re: SMTP Encryption Extension (fwd)
Message-ID: <199710221313.IAA13604@einstein.ssz.com>
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> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 07:38:07 +0200
> From: Mike <Michael.Johnson@mejl.com>
> Subject: Re: SMTP Encryption Extension

> Sure, but the idea here was hiding email to defeat traffic analysis. Ssmtp
> would raise alarms in any snopper but https would seem like business as
> usual, probably just another gif. And https is available through a lot of
> firewalls where you can't run ssmtp.

Your base assumption is that Mallet is stupid. Bad assumption.


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