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* SecureMail for Privacy
SECUREMAIL FOR PRIVACY
Jim Cannell
1:216/21
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?
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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