EnigmaMail version 1.0

myc18 writes "Last month at Tufts University, I created EnigmaMail. After being exposed to e-mail and communication security in the media, and my interest in the Engima Machine, I decided to develop a "secure communications module" for my class (semester) project in "Cryptography and Security." So could EnigmaMail be used as a secure e-mail module, despite the fact that it uses a dated cryptographic algorithm?" I don't see why not. It has the usual problems of symmetric-key cryptography (must get the key to the recipient) and of course, the system has been broken, but it would certainly be secure against most people. As long as you're aware of the limitations...

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This is a bad idea

[Sanity]

It is much better to spend your time doing nothing, than to spend your time creating a "security" application which doesn't actually protect people's security. In the world of cryptography people make extremely conservative claims about software based on secure algorithms (ie. those which have undergone much peer-review without breaking) - yet here is someone using a known-insecure algorithm and claiming that his software protects people.

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