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Re: /. Yahoo delivers encrypted email
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bram Cohen)
Tue Dec 5 14:22:21 2000
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:25:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
To: solaar@hushmail.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <200012041814.KAA04762@user1.hushmail.com>
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 solaar@hushmail.com wrote:
> >Yahoo's new system works like this: Once a message is composed, it
> >travels, unencrypted, to Yahoo,
>
> So feel no fear in sending anything you wouldn't mind being read before
> it's encrypted?
> I'm surprised AOL isn't offering this "security feature" as well ...
> I feel safer already :~)
To be fair, Yahoo handles so much mail that the CPU power necessary to
start SSL sessions for all of them gets pretty expensive. They'll probably
start doing end-to-end encryption when the prices of that drop lower,
Moore's law and all that.
-Bram Cohen
