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From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>
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Subject: Re: how is mail secure when only signed?
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this was, on the fateful occasion around Aug 07 18:45 -0400,
sent by John Galt                                                    
>
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, parv wrote:
> 
> >i am curious as why would some people, thus software, would consider a
> >plain text mail which is only signed, not encrypted, w/ public key of
> >some encryption scheme as secure? 
...
> 
> http://world.std.com/~dtd/sign_encrypt/sign_encrypt7.html
> 
> It's not.  This was discussed on one of the securityfocus mailinglists a
> while ago.

thanks john for the link; it's massive but i think i will be able to
digest it ... by chewing very slowly...


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