"--for-your-eyes-only"

Shatadal shatadal at vfemail.net
Tue Jun 28 22:03:23 CEST 2005


Johan Wevers wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> 
> 
>>I do not see how it would be possible to stop the reader (i.e., the person,
>>not the program) from copying and pasting that decrypted email;
> 
> 
> It isn't. And if all else fails he can still write it down by hand. It's
> considerd more like a hint, not as a 100% secure thing. And it might
> prevent that decryptd files are on the computer by accident. 
> 
> After all, if you mail something secret and the receiver will tell
> it further, no encryption protocol is going to protect you against
> that.
> 

This may help in IM http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ but the authors put
in the caveat that this method may not be feasible for e-mail due to its
latency.



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