[2969] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: IETF building GAK into the PKI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Clow)
Wed Jul 15 15:01:45 1998
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980714171640.03262158@pop3.clark.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:24:22 -0700
To: Carl Ellison <cme@acm.org>
From: Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
At 2:16 PM -0700 7/14/98, Carl Ellison wrote:
>I would love to see mailers (anyone from Qualcomm or Netscape listening?)
>keep mail archives enciphered under one or more storage keys. Symmetric
>crypto is fine for that. PGP mail can have the signature left attached to
>the cleartext (all enciphered under the storage key).
>
Why should it be in the mail program?
Why not use SFS (or PGPDisk, or ...) to create an encrypted disk
to store mail on?
-- Marshall
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