rsh over a modem). There is no particular reason why one couldn't encrypt before sending and decrypt upon receipt. Mostly just a modification to sendmail.cf and a modification to rmail. Of course this really just solves the problem for a single hop uucp link.
There is a package that encrypts e-mail, it is called something like Pretty Good Privacy. Use the fucking PGP for e-mail at the end-user point. No need to trust anyone. Crypto concentration points are bad as any other concentration points.
Believe it or not, I still have one mail route that travels over UUCP for the last link. For the past 4 or 5 years, I've done UUCP over TCP/IP. I'd think that one could tunnel that through SSL, though I've never tried to do it.
Or use 802.11b with a small dish ... does wonders to 20 miles and it's rather hard to intercept *every* path.
Heh... 19,200 was blazingly fast in those days, and the Telebit was set up for UUCP spoofing (the local modem faked the ACK packets to save turnaround time) to get better throughput. Still, I think a 56K modem could outpull a Telebit.
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