Key 123

While Judy was at the bank, the helpful young guy there volunteered information (unsolicited) on how to encrypt email. You type key123 into the subject line and it automatically encrypts your mail so it can't be stolen. We were skeptical. Questions occurred. Like: If we encrypt the email how does the receiving computer know how to unencrypt it? And if the receiving computer knows how to unencrypt it, what's to stop a thieving computer from unencrypting it?

We wondered why our children and children in law, who are so computer literate, never mentioned this to us, so we mentioned it to them. Judy sent an encrypted email to our son in law Brian. If you start at the bottom of this thread and read up, you might be able to follow the exchange (although some of it is encrypted).

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From: Brian Alexander [mailto:brianalexander1@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 9:05 PM
To: Judy Taylor
Subject: Re: Key 123

!seod ti tub krow dluow ti taht eveileb t'ndid I

!suineg a si yug tahT

:-)

-Brian

Judy Taylor wrote:

Hey,

Can you read this? Can ya Can ya.

Love,

YMIL

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