Encrypted Mail

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Sat Sep 23 04:18:36 AEST 1989


>Suggest use of elm's encryption feature instead.  Form a message
>which includes lines [encode] and [clear] surrounding sensitive
>portions.  You get prompted for a password when sending the message,
>and the receiver gets prompted for a password at time of reading.

Assuming, of course, that both the sender and receiver are running
"elm", or some mailer offering equivalent and compatible
capabilities....  (Note: it is occasionally not possible to demand that
the person to whom you're sending mail change their mail user agent.)



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