Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!greep@su-dsn From: greep%su-dsn@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: More comments about UNIX Security. Message-ID: <2380@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Jun-83 03:06:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2380 Posted: Tue Jun 21 03:06:00 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jun-83 09:16:24 EDT Lines: 14 I like the idea of encrypting these messages. Among other things, then we can apply the recent discussion about password selection to key selection, e.g. should encryption keys like "unix-wreckers" spelled sideways be disallowed. One problem would be if something happens to encrypt to the string "From" at the beginning of a line, and some losing mail system changes it to ">From". Of course, another way to look at it is that the list will be so successful that soon all the holes will be plugged and there won't be any harm to letting randoms see the messages, which will consist only of congratulatory commendations on doing such a spendid job of fixing everything. With all the wizards around, this should happen in a jiffy (or by the time we all have unix running on our pocket calculators, at which time the issue will become moot since shared systems will have become obsolete).