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Re: /. Yahoo delivers encrypted email
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Tue Dec 5 16:53:28 2000
From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
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Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:38:48 +0100 (CET)
To: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
Cc: solaar@hushmail.com, cryptography@c2.net
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Bram Cohen writes:
> 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.
Of course, this assumes that secure mail will be a major hit amongst
Yahoo users. Somehow, I doubt it.
