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Subject: Re: E-mail Encryption
From: Peter da Silva <peter @ baileynm . com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:36:59 -0600 (CST)
To: macgyver @ tos . net (MacGyver)
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199801070018 . SAA31044 @ starbase . tos . net> from "MacGyver" at Jan 6, 98 06:14:58 pm

> Using Eudora 4.0 onward (I'm not sure if previous versions support this
> feature), you have the ability to set an "output filter", which can be set
> to call any arbitrary program.  PGP 5.0+ has a Eudora plugin option that
> you can use to automagically guarantee that all emails sent out are
> encrypted in an invisible way to the user.

Unfortunately PGP 5.0+ encryption is incompatible with PGP 2.6, which is
what most of the people who use PGP are using. I understand the political
reasons for switching to D-H key exchange to get out from under RSA, but
I'm going to stick with 2.6 until there's a really compatible upgrade path
that works on both protocols and all platforms.


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