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From: boklm at mars-attacks.org (nicolas vigier)
Subject: Mailing lists and unsolicited/malicious spam

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, n3td3v wrote:

> 
> I was thinking, why are all e-mail addresses not encrypted as soon as
> they leave the authors mail client, surely this would stop anyone
> seeing the address, apart from the mail client at the other end the
> message was intended for. And when a user mails a mailing list the
> e-mail address could be read by the mailing list software, but stays
> encrypted for the broadcast out to the subscribers of the list.
> 
> All you need to do to stop spam is have e-mail addresses encrpyted and
> only readable by the person they were sent to. perhaps to make it
> nicer, leave the user@ side of the e-mail address showing, but encrypt
> the @domain side of the e-mail address.

Encrypted with what ? Symmetric, Assymetric ? What keys ?
The word 'encrypt' alone does not mean anything.

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