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Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-22 17:32:20


--On Monday, 22 September, 2003 15:57 -0600 Doug Royer <Doug(_at_)Royer(_dot_)com> wrote:

...
Same with health / HIPPA issues. Saying I'll take your email
and bounce it back is not
the same as saying "hey bozo, you are trying to send to a
bogus host name".

The email may be encrypted, however that is not sufficient for
some usage's.

In particular, encryption doesn't protect the information that a particular sender was trying to send information to a particular recipient. For some applications and transactions, having that information in the wrong hands --e.g., knowing who is trying to communicate with a competitor-- can, itself, be a significant security and/or privacy problem.

  john