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| DATE | 2001-10-08 |
| FROM | Jay Sulzberger
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: your mail
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Billy wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 02:25:34PM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
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> > Why not set up an encrypting bot for outgoing messages you want encrypted?
> > A separate user with a local email address of, say, "e". Then mail from
> > Billy to jays-at-panix.com could be sent to the address e+jays. The bot
> > would get the mail and sign and encrypt it, and send it on to
> > jays-at-panix.com.
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> This is a good idea. Two problems which you may be able to address:
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> 1) Bots shouldn't have power of attorney. They would need my private key,
> which probably requires interaction with me.
>
> 2) The bot would need a list of alias->address, so that
> `e+jays' could be converted to `jays-at-panix.com',
> it would be inconvenient for Reply situations, I'd have to replace
> 'jays-at-panix.com' with 'e+jays' in the header before sending.
> Now, on my system all mail is moved by localhost, and then
> moves on via ssh to mail.dadadada.net and only then is is released
> to the internet. All of my mail therefore always appears to
> come from the same host, regardless of where I physically am.
> So either of the two exims along the way could intervene as bots
> and recognize jays-at-panix.com directly.... Hm.. that has other problems.
There are various things to be dealt with. First we need a picture of the
data flow of the email system, of the encryption system, and the flow
between these two systems.
oo--JS.
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