Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!mmm!ems!datapg!sewilco From: sewilco@datapg.DataPg.MN.ORG (Scot E. Wilcoxon) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Crypt() in Elm - This may be a problem! Message-ID: <1060@datapg.DataPg.MN.ORG> Date: 26 Jun 88 04:47:49 GMT References: <470@altnet.ALTOS.COM> <278@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG> <485@altnet.ALTOS.COM> <10291@ncc.Nexus.CA> Reply-To: sewilco@datapg.DataPg.MN.ORG (Scot E. Wilcoxon) Followup-To: comp.mail.elm Organization: Data Progress, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 12 In article <10291@ncc.Nexus.CA> lyndon@ncc.nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: ... >As far as I am concerned, if two people want to send each other encrypted >mail they should implement their own compatable (with each others) >crypt(1) replacement. I don't think encryption should be part of the UA. ... Therefore, a [person,site],en-/decryption_routine table is needed. A mutually agreeable decryption routine name should also be in the encryption header. -- Scot E. Wilcoxon sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG {amdahl|hpda}!bungia!datapg!sewilco Data Progress UNIX masts & rigging +1 612-825-2607 uunet!datapg!sewilco