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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Zmodem added to UUCP
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Date: 29 Sep 89 15:06:27 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <682.2522121c@simpact.com> jeh@simpact.com writes:
> ... (b) the bulk of uucp traffic is news and mail; it is
>self-evidently ridiculous to spend a single cpu cycle to encrypt news ...

Everything else Jamie said was spot-on, but I would point out that
B news can be used for proprietary in-company information purposes too,
not just for the public newsgroups we read here.  So encrypting some
news might indeed make sense.

But this should certainly be done before UUCICO gets hold of it, not
in the protocol itself.

I wonder if Chuck Forsberg (uunet!omen!caf) is reading this and would
care to comment on the feasibility of adding a 'Z' protocol to UUCP.
-- 
"Nature loves a vacuum.  Digital    \O@/    Tom Neff
  doesn't." -- DEC sales letter     /@O\    tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET