[118880] in Cypherpunks
Disappearing [Self-Destruct E-mail]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Secret Squirrel)
Sat Oct 9 12:50:53 1999
Date: 9 Oct 1999 16:28:07 -0000
From: Secret Squirrel <secret_squirrel@nym.alias.net>
Message-ID: <849e0eaf404262c07857279c5b1cbd1b@anonymous>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
Reply-To: Secret Squirrel <secret_squirrel@nym.alias.net>
from educause:
'SELF-DESTRUCT' E-MAIL OFFERS VIRTUAL PRIVACY
The problem of e-mail being stored on computers on both the
sending and receiving end as well as along the networks they
travel long after being erased by sender and recipient--and
sometimes coming back as evidence, as in the Iran-Contra and
Microsoft antitrust cases--could become a thing of the past after
the introduction of a new system from San Francisco-based startup
Disappearing. The Disappearing system creates a temporary "key"
for sender and recipient to encrypt and decrypt messages. After
a certain amount of time set by the sender, the "key" will be
destroyed at Disappearing's site and the e-mail message will no
longer be readable. The system should be available in the first
part of 2000. (USA Today 10/07/99)
