Re: Security and the Government

[Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:08:28AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
| >And how do you encrypt paper mail ;)?
| 
| Yup...

Several years ago, I had the unmitigated gall to inquire about the
security of the US mail system, and how others deal with this.  I was
told that the US government has decreed the US mail to be just fine
for top-secret information, so long a certain guidelines (no external
indicator of secrecy, several opaque envelopes, to a known address)
were followed.

So, clearly, one does not need encryption for paper mail. :)

Adam

-- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
                                                       -Hume


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