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Subject: re: Secure Containers
From: Bill Husler <bhusler @ community . net>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 07:17:35 -0800
To: "A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security" <PADGETT @ hobbes . orl . mmc . com>, <firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>

>From:        A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security, 
>PADGETT @
 hobbes .
 orl .
 
>>From: 	Morris[SMTP:bncqraq @
 is000913 .
 BELL-ATL .
 COM]
>> ... ... want to put it in a container that if it is tampered
>>with, the tampering would be impossible to hide.  We have (or are getting)
>>everything except the last container.  Does anyone know of a commercially
>>available container like this?  It would need to be a one time use 
>>container,
>
>A few years ago  (yes puppy, this decade) there was a company that was
>selling small palstic "lockboxes". These were plastic rectangles of
>various sizes that, once assembled, had to be broken to be opened.
>
>Do not know if the company is still around - may even have one in my office
>*somewhere* but such things did/do exist.

It may be obvious, but I just thought I would point out that encasing 
your note in glass or plastic is fine as long as the individual that 
tampers with it does not have the technology to replace the missing 
container. The usually have a guy at the state fair that will seal 
anything you give him in a tin can, but anyone opening the can to get to 
the goody simply has to go back to the fair and have the goody put into a 
new can.

Bill

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for what I write!


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