Re: Encrypted Email Services

From: r.e.s. (r.s_at_XXmindspring.com)
Date: 11/13/03 

Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:58:14 GMT

"Mok-Kong Shen" <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote ...

> flip wrote:
> >
> > can anyone recommend a free web based encrypted email service?
> [snip]
>
> I don't quite understand what you desire. If you want
> to secure your messages thru encryption, then you have
> to apply encryption to such materials 'yourself' or else
> there will be some outsiders who know the content. Once
> you have the ciphertext, say in hexs, you can send that
> as ordinary e-mail. Or am I missing something?

I ran across some javascript that does that with arc4:
http://www.leemon.com/crypto/SelfDecrypt.html
Has the self-decryption idea been discussed here before?

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