From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:50:47 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Formatting Re-opened Ciphertext Problem. Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 22:50:49 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.249.18.180 X-Trace: sv3-3Cd8G/4t+zn8171fCeoeLYfW03WsAbvfsjMF8oZk3YVwvJxfqiJxOICeLQSilHwd9fmmbNPLujl6Z6E!L0ClY2/NnrMIolGwHqbwbfMUKQR2vZ6FyYGijTkmB8c74q1MlbF6OMb4shwudq4ToC7rOwt8ctI4!dcbCbuYlnNdoCYu9KNf3UkTq2Ek= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2652 X-Received-Bytes: 2793 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:17121 Date: 2013-09-04T22:50:49-04:00 List-Id: On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 00:15:13 -0700 (PDT), Austin Obyrne declaimed the following: > >This plan of my sending the ciphertext by existing technology is a makesfift less-than-ideal alternative but if it works then it means that ordinary users can send encrypted emails from their own computers without having to go through specialised channels being provided in centrally operated (expensive)clearing houses. > Uhm... If you include public-key systems... I've had that ability for a few decades (but not on the new computer -- I've not bothered tracking down an equivalent to PGP yet). No "clearing houses", only access to a key-store system. (I may need to dig up my oldest laptop to produce key-cancelation messages, since it still has PGP on it). I'll eventually try something like GPG. >Have you any experience of attaching files like this to emails without going through a word processor. - should be quite possible I think. > Uhm... Any mail client that supports MIME should allow for attaching /any/ file... If you are trying to do the email programmatically, you need to study the SMTP RFPs (I think that's on a third revision) along with the RFPs for MIME messages. Attaching binary (or external text) files has not been anything mysterious for over 20 years! -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/