On Tue, 7 May 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
Some of the solution to this problem may come from the answer to the question, "What am I trusting the receiver with?" I can see a number of possibilities:
(1) I just want an envelope so casual eavesdroppers can't read the mail. Given the people Rich Graves has been dealing with, I see this as a powerful reason to encrypt all private email, just as you might send all private postal mail in envelopes rather than on postcards.
Oh, those WhoWhere? guys are just a bunch of pussycats. The fact that you're sending postcards is only a problem if you don't want them to be read. It's more the email I receive that I worry about, so all my friends use the address rich@alpha.c2.org now. You should only worry about men in the middle when you're playing volleyball. The endpoints are usually far more vulnerable. -rich http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~llurch/