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Yahoo! offers encrypted e-mail (Apologies if anyone's se

[Soso, "mehr als die meisten User brauchen", sagt dieser suplerschlaue Analyst. Kryptographie nur fuer "super-secret messages"? Da wuesste man doch gerne, auf wessen Rechnung dieser Experte arbeitet. ---AHH]

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Yahoo! offers encrypted e-mail

The Web portal will let its e-mail users send super-secret messages. But one analyst says it's more security than most users need.

By Ben Charny and Richard Shim, ZDNet News November 29, 2000 1:05 PM PT

Yahoo! Inc. on Wednesday became the first major portal to offer free, encrypted e-mail services. But at least one analyst says it's a solution for a problem that hardly exists. Yahoo!'s new "Send via SecuritDelivery.com" is the result of a $5.7 million deal the portal signed earlier this year with e-mail security company ZixIt Corp.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2659090,00.html

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