In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, " L. Sassaman" writes: > Now, obviously, this lacks all the benefits of public key cryptography. > (The key, or "combination to the safe" must be delivered to the recipient > in some manner deemed secure. We are now back to the days of relying on > couriers with hand-cuffed brief-cases for security. The web page steps > over this issue, merely saying "you send [the key] separately".) The > product offers no identity verification for the author or originator of > the file being transfered. In addition, the .exe generated is a potential > carrier of virii, and only works on Microsoft systems. (Though a Java > version is promised.) It's far worse than that -- the program you execute could be a Trojan horse that asks you for the key and mails it to your enemy. (If you don't have an enemy that's reading and trying to analyze your mail, why bother encrypting?) Btw -- this company is not the only one that supports this "feature". I've been told that "the market demands it".
