Subject: Re: Pine and PGP

From: Hong Zhang <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:26:44 -0700

Jie Yuan wrote:
> 
> In article <[email-masked]>,
>         [email-masked] (Kenneth P. Turvey) writes:
> 
> > If your mail isn't
> > really all that secure, and you trust the administrators, you could
> > just make sure your mail folders are not world readable.
> >
> > chmod go-rwx foldername
> >
> 
> The default setting is "-rw-------" for all folders of Pine.  Just do
> a "ls -l ~/mail/" to make sure.
> 
> To be sure noone intercepts your mail, don't use mail.  Less than that,
> delete all the mails from your Unix account after reading them.  Save
> them on floppy/tape and store off-site.  If you cannot trust your sys
> adm, you cannot keep anything personal on your Unix account, no matter
> whether they are encrypted or not.  He/she can find your secret key to
> decrypt everything after all.  You just have to live with some
> insecurity in today's computer world.
> 
> Jie
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Thanks for all your reply. I know how to it in script. I was wondering
if this should be another feature in the feature release of all mail
programs. The mail programs should provide ways to encrypt folds or
mails to make it a Pretty Good Mail  :-)

HZ
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