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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)
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Organization: Data Progress, Minneapolis, MN
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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.
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Scot E. Wilcoxon  sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG    {amdahl|hpda}!bungia!datapg!sewilco
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