From nobody at cicada.berkeley.edu  Thu Jul  8 08:41:47 1993
From: nobody at cicada.berkeley.edu (nobody at cicada.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 93 08:41:47 PDT
Subject: Test.  Sorry.
Message-ID: <9307081541.AA12054@cicada.berkeley.edu>


This is a test.  Apologies for wasted bandwidth.

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To: Rachel Beth Goldstein <rbg at panix.com>
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Subject: Re: text p.d. cryptosystems for email 
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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1993 11:40:08 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger at lehman.com>


Rachel Beth Goldstein says:
> 
> this is probably a faq, but pardon me, since this is my first mail to
> the cypherpunks list.  the problem is this: i once worked for a
> (nameless) finance company that had pseudo-wizard-dorkos for sa's, and
> a gravitationally-challenged boss that routinely read employees' (ie.
> *my*) personal email.  i knew this because he asked me specific
> questions regading the email subjects.  both he and the dorkos
> relished this ability and probably got some power trip from it.

This is likely a violation of federal law, but never mind that.

> however, friends told me that (1) crypt is easily compromised, and 
> (2) not all unix sites have crypt available anyway.  are there 
> text-based alternates to crypt, such that i don't have to use 
> uuencode or btoa to mail encrypted text?   

What you want is PGP. Doubtless someone out there is likely to tell
you more about it...

Perry