On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, n3td3v wrote: > > I was thinking, why are all e-mail addresses not encrypted as soon as > they leave the authors mail client, surely this would stop anyone > seeing the address, apart from the mail client at the other end the > message was intended for. And when a user mails a mailing list the > e-mail address could be read by the mailing list software, but stays > encrypted for the broadcast out to the subscribers of the list. > > All you need to do to stop spam is have e-mail addresses encrpyted and > only readable by the person they were sent to. perhaps to make it > nicer, leave the user@ side of the e-mail address showing, but encrypt > the @domain side of the e-mail address. Encrypted with what ? Symmetric, Assymetric ? What keys ? The word 'encrypt' alone does not mean anything. -- gpg fp: 8a7e 9719 b38d 97c6 6af0 d345 12a0 3708 2c8c 3c11 http://boklm.mars-attacks.org/
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