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Re: Full Strength Stronghold 2.0 Released Worldwide

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Fri May 9 13:59:25 1997

From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <3371F5C3.794B@netscape.com> from Tom Weinstein at "May 8, 97 08:48:19 am"
To: tomw@netscape.com (Tom Weinstein)
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 12:05:41 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: cryptography@c2.net

Tom, fan of hot cpus, wrote:

| > If I had 2000+ emails waiting after 2 weeks, I might be quite happy to
| > trash them and start over.  :-)
| 
| Yeah.  I get a lot of mail, much of it from mailing lists.  Of course,
| almost none of it is encrypted today.  It would be nice if, at some
| time in the future, all of it were encrypted.

	If its on a public list, you want authentication, not
encryption.  Seems pretty silly to make glacier.mcom.com re-encrypt
each message to every member of the list.

Adam


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