steve@ivucsb.UUCP (Steve Lemke <steve>) (10/12/88)
I'm a senior at the University of California, Santa Barbara, majoring in
Electrical and Computer Engineerin, and I'm writing a Technical paper for
my Technical Writing class (imagine that!).
The title of the paper is "Electronic Mail: What about Signatures and
Envelopes", and it will be dealing with security issues such as ensuring
that the listed author of a document did, indeed, create the document, as
well as making sure that only people who are supposed to read the document
are able to read it. These issues seem to be handled nicely with the use
of a public key cryptosystem such as the RSA system (available in a program
called "MailSafe" on the IBM PC). I'm also including some background info
on electronic mail - an introduction and brief history - for those who are
not already familiar with it (my target audience is the Tech Writing class).
If you have any information that might prove helpful for my report, I would
really like to hear from you, via EMAIL please. I'm interested in any
articles related to electronic mail, especially the history of or security
aspects as mentined above. Thanks in advance.
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