[2092] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: statement of intent, security of CMR (Re: GAK and S/MIME)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Bogk)
Wed Jan 28 16:26:33 1998
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Cc: colin@nyx.net, cryptography@c2.net
From: Andreas Bogk <andreas@artcom.de>
Date: 28 Jan 1998 15:31:54 +0100
In-Reply-To: Adam Back's message of Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:13:01 GMT
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> writes:
Adam> Situations where a group of people need to be able to read
Adam> email to an address (such as a sales team when one team
Adam> member is away) can be addressed with shared keys, or with
Adam> Matt Blaze's proxy cryptography techniques to translate
Adam> messages from one recipient to another.
I'd like to see these techniques widely available. Corporate key
escrow is evil.
Adam> Ah, yes, but it doesn't stop there -- if the user "chooses"
Adam> not to include the additional recipient the mail is bounced
Adam> (if PGP's SMTP policy enforcer is so configured). If the
IIRC, this is checked by trial-decrypting a 16-bit field. Somehow this
reminds me of Clipper.
Andreas
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