>From a local paper dated July 10
http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/retr_story.pl/23856
"According to AbsoluteFuture.com CEO and
President Graham Andrews, SafeMessage
gets around the security problem in two
ways. One, the message is encrypted
several times over, layering different
methods of encryption on top of each other.
The result is very strong encryption."
"R. A. Hettinga" wrote:
>
> --- begin forwarded text
>
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:11:27 -0700
> From: Somebody
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Absolut Snake Oil
>
> A start-up is set to release a novel messaging service that lets people
> send heavily encrypted email directly to each other, a development
> that could be a boon for privacy advocates but a headache for law
> enforcement authorities.
>
> AbsoluteFuture.com of Bellvue, Wash., has dubbed its service
> "SafeMessage," describing it as a "direct messaging" service that
> transmits
> messages from party to party without the use of a central server.
>
> To use SafeMessage, a person signs on to the program with an ID and
> password, similarly to an email client. When typing the recipient,
> the person
> sends the contact to AbsoluteFuture's server, which locates the
> recipient
> online and allows the sender to send the message directly to the
> recipient.
>
> The message is encrypted before it leaves the sender's computer, and
> the
> decoder key is destroyed. If the recipient is not online, the sender
> must send
> the message to AbsoluteFuture's server, which will hold the message
> until the
> recipient logs on or the message times out.
>
> Meta Group analyst David Thompson calls the market for peer-to-peer or
> encrypted messaging nascent. "People are just starting to realize that
> this
> kind of thing is even possible," he said.
>
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>
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> R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Dennis Glatting
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