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Fwd: [IP] A Simpler, More Personal Key to Protect Online
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Udhay Shankar N)
Mon Jul 7 18:18:04 2003
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 13:51:37 +0530
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From: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com>
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Udhay
>------ Forwarded Message
>From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff@iconia.com>
>Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:46:24 +0200
>To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>Subject: A Simpler, More Personal Key to Protect Online Messages
>
>A Simpler, More Personal Key to Protect Online Messages
>
>By JOHN MARKOFF
>The New York Times
>
>PALO ALTO, Calif., July 6 =97 A Silicon Valley start-up company on Tuesday
>plans to unveil a new approach to sending secure electronic messages and
>protecting data, a simpler alternative to current encryption systems, which
>use long digital numbers, called public keys.
>
>The new company, Voltage Security, which is based here, instead uses=
another
>unique identifier as the public key: the message recipient's e-mail=
address.
>
>Under the Voltage system, the sender of a message uses software that
>converts the recipient's e-mail address into a number and then encrypts the
>message using a mathematical formula. The recipient can then use a similar
>formula in conjunction with a secret key to decode the message. The company
>says it would be almost impossible for an eavesdropper to use the formula.
>The software can be used with several existing PC e-mail programs.
>
>--snip--
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/technology/07CODE.html
>
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>geoff.goodfellow@iconia.com * Prague - CZ * telephone +420 603 706 558
>"success is getting what you want & happiness is wanting what you get"
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/biztech/articles/17drop.html
>http://www.livejournal.com/users/a2gsg/
>
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