Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!udel!galvin From: galvin@udel.EDU (James M Galvin) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Call for existing encryption program Message-ID: <381@louie.udel.EDU> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 10:36:34 EDT Article-I.D.: louie.381 Posted: Thu Jul 23 10:36:34 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 07:08:56 EDT References: <1400@crash.CTS.COM> Reply-To: galvin@udel.EDU (James M Galvin) Distribution: na Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 21 In article <1400@crash.CTS.COM> jkimble@crash.CTS.COM (Jim Kimble) writes: > >As part of my undergraduate thesis, I am writing a software application >which will create a network similiar to that of Usenet, only on a PC level >-- designed for the average home computer user, with nodes leading to UUCP >etc. > >anyway, being that there are a few people out there who arn't honest, I >feel that it might be a good idea to encrypt messages before they bounce >through a node. You haven't discovered yet that your next problem will be cryptographic key distribution. This is precisely the subject of my PhD Dissertation, to be completed this summer. I have designed an automatic key distribution protocol, perfectly suited to be included in what you are doing (and MANY other applications). It uses electronic mail to exchange protocol messages, rather than requiring a virtual connection as in the Internet. Jim-- James M Galvin