Re: Email Privacy eating software

At 12:33 PM 7/17/2000, Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:37:47 PDT, Brian Lloyd said:
> > Personally, I satisfy my desire for privacy by using strong encryption
> > wherever possible.  I sure hope I am not hurting any feelings at the FBI.
>
> From the Sendmail 8.11 Release notes:
>
>         Support SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP (RFC 2487) (STARTTLS).
>                 Implementation influenced by the example programs of
>                 OpenSSL and the work of Lutz Jaenicke of TU Cottbus.
>         Support the security layer in SMTP AUTH for mechanisms which
>                 support encryption.  Based on code contributed by Tim
>                 Martin of CMU.
>
> I'm sure that the guys who run Echelon will be overjoyed when this
> ships (Real Soon Now ;)
>
> They'll be even more overjoyed if a lot of sites start using it...
That will be nice.  But even PGP suffices for now.  I do my level best to 
get people with whom I regularly correspond to install and use PGP, 
including those outside the USoA.  If we use strong encryption for even 
trivial/uninteresting messages we deny those who believe that they should 
have access to our information even the hint of which messages might be 
more interesting than others.  And as encrypted traffic increases, the task 
of determining which messages are "interesting" becomes even more 
difficult, perhaps to the point where it becomes effectively 
impossible.  This seems reasonable and proper to me.

Brian Lloyd                          Lucent Technologies
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