This is a test. Apologies for wasted bandwidth. AA01851; Thu, 8 Jul 93 11:40:10 EDT Received: by snark.shearson.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22568; Thu, 8 Jul 93 11:40:08 EDT Message-Id: <9307081540.AA22568@snark.shearson.com> To: Rachel Beth Goldstein <rbg@panix.com> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: text p.d. cryptosystems for email In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jul 1993 11:03:02 EDT." <199307081503.AA28828@panix.com> Reply-To: pmetzger@lehman.com X-Reposting-Policy: redistribute only with permission Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1993 11:40:08 -0400 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@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