[3068] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: practical encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mok-Kong Shen)
Fri Jul 24 13:22:22 1998
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:10:02 +0100
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Mike Rosing wrote:
> We must do our best to educate people as best we can, but our best
> skills are in programming. so let's give people really easy to use
> crypto, so easy they don't know it's there. It won't be perfect,
> but it would certainly be better than the nothing that's in place
> now!
Your idea is fine. However, 'so easy they don't know it's there'
is difficult to achieve. Do you mean something, say, that Netscape
incorporates into its products? There problems can arise. I don't
see a better way than that the user consciously encrypt his
messages with an algorithm of his own choice and send them, though
he may automate the process, say, with a batch file or the like.
As to programming I suppose it is the declared goal of groups like
coderpunks to do just that but the efforts obviously need be
intensified if we are going to win against the bureaucrats.
M. K. Shen
