Re: Available: Hushmail- fully encrypted, truly secure, free web-based e-mail client

From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Mon May 24 1999 - 05:28:51 MDT


Matthew Gaylor [freematt@coil.com] wrote:
>And it also mean that you can
>access your account from any computer that has a web browser and internet
>access, anywhere in the world.

Technical details of this system are hard to find on their web site, but
this does explain one rather alarming comment that I saw; to support this
roaming, they apparently store your private key *on their server* and
download it to the web browser when you want to use it. You'd better be
sure you have a damn good passphrase...

    Mark



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