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Re: palm crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Goldberg)
Tue Aug 3 17:25:23 1999
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
Date: 3 Aug 1999 20:36:29 GMT
In article <001201bedc8b$3d5fb580$e3cf54ca@asiainter.net>,
Enzo Michelangeli <em@who.net> wrote:
>What's the point of using publick key technologies like ECC to protect
>private documents? As key management is a non-issue, something based on,
>say, 3DES or IDEA (like "Secret!", http://linkesoft.com/english/secret/)
>would suffice...
I had the same thought. I finally decided that the ability to write a
memo, encrypt it to some *other* pubkey, and beam it to the recipient is
sufficiently useful to warrant the existence of this program. Keeping
your *own* files secret is a special case.
- Ian
