New PGP "Everything the FBI ever dreamed of"

Bill Frantz frantz at netcom.com
Sun Oct 5 22:35:38 PDT 1997



At 9:52 AM -0700 10/3/97, Robert Hettinga wrote:
>Comments?
>
>From: Martin Minow <minow at apple.com>
>"The new version also includes some of the most sophisticated techniques
>for enforcing this policy through the corporation. The most novel may be a
>new version of software controlling a company's SMTP server, the machine
>that acts as the central mailroom for a corporation. PGP provides a
>software agent that will read all of the mail to make sure that it complies
>with the corporate policy. This may include requiring all messages to be
>signed with digital signatures or include a backdoor that the management
>can use to read the message. If the software agent discovers a message
>violates the policy, it can either return it to sender or simply log a copy.

I wonder if it can handle the following:

(1) Encrypt real message (e.g. use PGP or Entrust).
(1a) Strip the headers.
(2) UUEncode the message.
(3) Encrypt the message with the corporate system including CAK.
(4) Send it thru the SMTP server.


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