Re: [MacPerl] Public key risks

[dick@cfcl.com (Dick Karpinski)]

>Even public-key doesn't seem safe...the whole problem is that anyone who
>sniffs packets sees everything that gets sent, in whatever for it's sent.

THat is exactly the circumstance where public key is safe.  THe key is
public and things encrypted with it are private, as long as the private
key is still private.  Even if the message and the public key are printed
in every newspaper in the world.

Dick

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