Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Zmodem added to UUCP Message-ID: <14757@bfmny0.UU.NET> Date: 29 Sep 89 15:06:27 GMT References: <3602@escargot.UUCP> <682.2522121c@simpact.com> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Distribution: usa Organization: ^ Lines: 17 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: 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