FIDOnet encryption (or lack thereof)
J. Eric Townsend
jet at netcom.com
Thu Sep 30 11:41:55 PDT 1993
Mike Godwin writes:
> My question is this: how does he know that the mail is encrypted if he's
> not examining the mail that passes through his system? If he *is*
> examining the mail that passes through his system, it seems likely that he
> is violating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
With UNIX it's quite simple to grep for "-----BEGIN PGP
MESSAGE-----"... and ditch messages that match.
I guess one could also run the incoming mail through a spell-checker
and reject messages with greater than %99 failure rate.
Neither of these require actual examination of the message by a human,
neither reveal content of a message to a human.
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