Here's a copy of your message back to you as you requested: lmccarth@cs.umass.edu writes:
Wayne Madsen wrote somewhere:
A knowledgeable government source claims that the NSA has concluded agreements with [...] Netscape to permit the introduction of the means to prevent the anonymity of Internet electronic mail, [...]
I suspect this may actually mean that they're pushing Netscape to incorporate cryptographic authentication into browser email, which I think is a useful development. (Hey, I read that Netscape employees get fined $1 for referring to Navigator as a "browser".)
At any rate, it's an excuse for me to ask some questions:
(0) I'm not aware of any class library objects or methods in stand-alone Java for calling the local mail transport agent. Is there any class library support in Java+{Navigator, HotJava, Mosaic, NetCruiser, the AOL web tool, etc.} for calls to the local mail agent configured in the browser ?
I would prefer not to reinvent SMTP using the Socket class in my own applets. Ideally I'd like to have an applet that presents a form with some entry boxes and check boxes, quantizes and encrypts the input according to the check box settings, and spews the resulting byte streams to the MTA.
(1) As I recall, I used to be able to set (as an Option) the path and name of the local MTA (e.g. /usr/lib/sendmail) in an earlier version of Netscape. That seems to have disappeared in Navigator 2.0. Is there indeed no longer a way to set that ?
It occurs to me that we could have achieved partial integration of remailing into Navigator quite cheaply with that option.
Comments from Sun and/or Netscape and/or anyone else would be welcome. Thanks :)
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