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- * SecureMail for Privacy
- SECUREMAIL FOR PRIVACY
- Jim Cannell
- 1:216/21
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- Since its humble beginnings in 1984, FidoNet has enabled people over
- the entire world to communicate inexpensively and reliably. Today,
- it is almost routine for a message to be delivered anywhere in the
- world in 24 - 48 hours at a very low cost. Yet, for all this speed
- and low cost, one very important thing has had to be sacrificed --
- privacy. A copy of the message may exist on each and every system
- that the message is routed through, available for the sysop and
- possibly others to read.
-
- Are you unwilling to share your private mail with all these other
- people, but yet do not want to pay the high price of direct NetMail?
- Now, you can have the best of both worlds -- the privacy of direct
- mail coupled with the low or zero cost of routed NetMail. The
- SecureMail system is a subset of FidoNet dedicated to preserving the
- privacy of your NetMail. The SecureMail hosts promise to neither
- monitor nor censor any intransit NetMail on their systems. All
- enroute traffic is erased as soon as processed by SecureMail hosts.
-
- There are no restrictions on the content of mail passed through the
- SecureMail system. The message content is of concern only to the
- sender and recipient. For those that want even more privacy, the
- SecureMail system accepts and delivers encrypted messages with the
- same dedication to privacy. We are mail movers -- not censors nor
- voyeurs.
-
- It should be pointed out that there is no Policy4 prohibiton against
- encrypted mail. It only says that routing encrypted mail without
- prior permission is annoying behavior. Unfortunately, many sysops
- in FidoNet refuse to handle any encrypted traffic. Again, SecureMail
- comes to the rescue. All SecureMail hosts have given permission to
- route encryted traffic through their systems.
-
- SecureMail is a part of FidoNet; it is not another vanity network.
- It exists in the original spirit of FidoNet to provide communications
- among widely separated people without adding layers of bureaucratic
- control. It is a totally voluntary and cooperative effort to move
- mail efficiently while maintaining the privacy of the correspondents.
- The SecureMail hosts are dedicating their own time and resources to
- accomplish this goal.
-
- To use the SecureMail system, identify your local Net SecureMail host
- by looking in the nodelist for the U?SMH flag. These hosts will
- forward your private NetMail into the SecureMail system for quick,
- reliable, and private delivery. All you have to do to is route your
- outbound NetMail through this ?SMH. Wouldn't you rather entrust
- your NetMail to those that care about your privacy than to just dump
- it into a distribution system where it is delayed and read while
- enroute?
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- SecureMail is a rapidly growing international mail system. Currently,
- there are SecureMail hosts in all ten regions of Zone 1, as well as
- Zones 2 and 3. Even though we do not yet have hosts in Zones 4, 5,
- and 6, we will still accept and deliver mail to/from nodes in those
- zones. We expect to obtain ?SMHs in these three FidoNet zones
- shortly.
-
- If there is not a ?SMH in your net or close by, we encourage you to
- volunteer for the post. As long as you are willing to forward mail
- without monitoring or censoring, you will be welcomed. You can
- obtain a full information package by freqing SECUREML from 1:216/21,
- 1:374/14, 2:51/8, 2:5100/8, 3:800/857, or any of the ?SMH systems
- listed in the nodelist. This package contains details on the
- operation of SecureMail, guidelines, and general philosophy of
- SeceureMail. It also contains the latest SecureMail routing map.
- Since there are a number of control phreaks in FidoNet that disallow
- user flags in the nodelist, you may find a closer ?SMH to you by
- reviewing the map rather than the nodelist.
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