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On Wednesday 09 January 2002 10:59, you wrote:
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:01:16AM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:I encrypt medical records when I move them by email.With what, just out of interest?
Captain Crunch decoder ring<g> Actually either PGP or GNU PG The NHS is adopting a PKI-based scheme for moving lab results, which I infer has now made it past GCHQ et al, and we can expect half the secret to be used to generate our key to be emailed to us soon, and the other half to be conveyed to the health authority. Once those secrets have been combined the channel over which they were distributed will be assumed by many people to have been secured. Politics is intensely bound up with crypto, and the discussions on the UK-Crypto list are often rather interesting (It isn't a how to list it is a policy and law list) -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.